Speak Quotes

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new... That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

If we are going to continue to be proud that we are Americans, there must be no weakening of the code by which we have lived; by the right to meet your accuser face to face, if you have one; by your right to go to the church or the synagogue or even the mosque of your own choosing; by your right to speak your mind and be protected in it.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.

Steady, Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.

The phrase 'military necessity' is sometimes used where it would be more truthful to speak of military convenience or even personal convenience. I do not want it to cloak slackness or indifference.

The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first. Vadodara has first right on me.

King of the animals - as thou hast described him - I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest - because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth .

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.

There can be no constitutional democracy in any community which denies to the individual his freedom to speak and worship as he wishes.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-- the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Maybe it's the things I say. Maybe I should think before I speak.

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do ... I think in the end, being natural, and being ... actually genuine is what wins.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions! Listen twice, speak once.

Every time I speak I want the truth to come out. Every time I speak I want a shiver. I don't want them to be like they know what I'm gonna say because it's polite. I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world or I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee you that I will spark the brain that will change the world.