Speech Quotes

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.