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Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham.

Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit lobbying, we are in effect limiting free speech.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.

President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'

Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place.

Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.