833 Quotes About Speech

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play with white roses that belong to others.

Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?