Quotes with speech

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  • Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Bergen Evans Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
    The Natural History of Nonsense XIX
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Ben Shapiro Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer.'' I can't say it myself.
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    English stage actress (1865 - 1940)
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  • Brit Hume Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Adam Smith Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Ben Carson Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Jim Murray I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
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  • William Shakespeare I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Adam Sandler I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Peggy Noonan I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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