Quotes with speech

Quotes 121 till 140 of 162.

  • George Washington The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • John Mortimer The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Sir George Jessel The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
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  • Ralph Charell The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
    Ralph Charell
    American author
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  • Carl Van Doren The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Richardson The most precious things in speech are pauses.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ann Coulter The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
    Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Beeban Kidron The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Alan Dershowitz The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Buddha The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Allan Bloom There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Voltaire They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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