833 Quotes About Speech

You drown him by your talk.

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

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Boy, what a speech, ... He made one of those wonderful, wonderful speeches to his people.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

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.

Literature is the immortality of speech.