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    In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

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    In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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    In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

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    In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.' When asked what he based that on, Trump said, 'I heard ME say it just now. So it's gotta be true.'

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    In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

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    In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.

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    In a strange way, Hillary Clinton was helped and victimized by Barack and Michelle Obama.Michelle Obama was probably better than Barack Obama, if you think about it.Her speech is a masterful, masterful speech. And she delivered it in a persuasively conversational tone.

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    I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

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    In fact, anybody else who hears this [speech of Donald Trump in Philadelphia] is probably gonna be dutifully impressed with Trump's comportment, his presentation, his knowledge of this, and his temperament here. It's all a great package and looks good.

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    In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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    In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

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    I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

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    In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

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    In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

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    In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

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    In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

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    In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

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    I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

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    Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

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    I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

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    In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

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    I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

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    I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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    I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

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    I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

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    I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

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    I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

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    I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches

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    I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

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    I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

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    It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

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    I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.

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    It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

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    It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

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    It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

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    It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

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    It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

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    It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

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    It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

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    It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

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    It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

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    It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.

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    It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

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    It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

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    It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

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    It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

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    It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

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    It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

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    It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

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    It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.