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• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.

  Lee Strobel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Communication, Skills Training

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76, St. Martin's Press

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• When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Men, Firsts

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• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Fear, Men, Religion

  "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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• That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Boredom, Insipid, Tedious

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Words are containers for power

  Joyce Meyer

  Power, Language, Containers

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Conflict Free Living”, p.17, Charisma Media

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• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Freedom Of Speech, Together

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouraging, 4th Of July, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Golden, Harvest, Flowering

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.187

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Freedom, Failure, Independent

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.

  Peter Marshall

  God, Jesus, Tired

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• Carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fall, Communication, Thinking

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• Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Action, Influence, Environment

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• It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

  "After Very Visible Roles, Lupita Nyong'o Looks To Disappear Into Character". Interview with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. April 23, 2016.

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• English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Humor, Appreciate

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Behaviour

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• I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

  Umar

  Regret, Silence, Words Of Wisdom

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• No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Strong, Coffee, Black

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• Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

  Rumi

  Keys, Padlocks, Throat

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• Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

  David Frum

  Vanity, People, Groups

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• Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.

  Peter Farb

  Community, Way, Grammar

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.240, Vintage

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