Speech Quotes - Page 25

• The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

  Horace Mann

  Chinese, Action, Excellent

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• A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Looks, Speak

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

  Kate Clinton

  President, Matter, Styrofoam

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• Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Giving, Action, Motive

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.543, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Cooking, Green

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• You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.

  George Brandis

  Believe, Views, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Would Be

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mother, Children, Manners

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• 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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• 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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• The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Swelling

  "The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio". Poem by Dante Alighieri, Canto XI, 1321.

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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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• we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

  Beatrice Webb

  Fire, Answers, Opponents

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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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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• He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

  Gerald R. Ford

  Leader, Political, Mets

  www.foxnews.com.

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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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• I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

  Margaret Halsey

  People, Generations, Rising

  Margaret Halsey (1960). “This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary”

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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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• Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

  Regina Maria Roche

  Seductive, Charm, Eloquence

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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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