Quotes 121 till 140 of 162.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Source: From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
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