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  • Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
  • My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
  • Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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  • Plutarch Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
    ― Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    ― George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Cato the Elder Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
    ― Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    ― Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
    ― Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
    ― Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
    ― A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Brendan Behan A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
    ― Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Ralph Archbold A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
    ― Ralph Archbold
    American actor and speaker (1942 - 2017)
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  • E. M. Cioran A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
    ― E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Benazir Bhutto America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
    ― Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    ― Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Alan K. Simpson An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
    ― Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Camille Paglia And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
    ― Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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