Speech Quotes - Page 11

• Speech isn't for agony.

  Hortense Calisher

  Agony, Suffering

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
  [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Class, Togas, Language

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• Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Independent Judiciary, Freedom Of Speech, Slavery

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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• Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

  Theodore Parker

  Silence, Cold, Figures

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

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• We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Free Speech

  President Barack Obama's remarks to the People of Estonia at the Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 3, 2014.

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• It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.

  Augustus William Hare

  Illustration, Giving, Way

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• a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

  Rae Foley

  Degrees, Literacy, Politician

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• When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

  James Martineau

  Running, Forever, Soul

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.147

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• You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Cat, Son, Talking

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,
  They will, they will not; fools that on them trust;
  For in their speech is death, hell in their smile.
  [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace:
  Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida,
  Si tra se volge.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Women, Heart, Crafts

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• Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

  Mary Webb

  People, Great Love, Silence

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• The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Freedom Of Speech, Fundamentals, Nations

  "Rep. Markwayne Mullin defends "Duck Dynasty" star's speech rights" by Chris Casteel, newsok.com. December 19, 2013.

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• For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  Nancy Friday

  Nice, Clothes, Order

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• However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

  Mary MacLane

  May, Language, Great Ones

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• With God there is no need for long speeches.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Long, Needs, Long Speeches

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• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Thinking, News, Television

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.206, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

  Abraham Coles

  Poetry, Needs, Answers

  Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

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• It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

  Josephine Tey

  Use, Jargon, Language

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Religion, Democracy, Principles

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• does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

  Naomi Mitchison

  Two, People, Way

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• Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

  Jackson Pearce

  Mean, Judgement, Freedom Of Speech

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• In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Lobbyists, Firsts

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• They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Firsts, Hardest, Wells

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

  Rick Santorum

  Control Of Your Life, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: portside.org

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