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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

We shouldn't have free speech.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump`s plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.

When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Action achieves ambition.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.