833 Quotes About Speech

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

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

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.