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Quote link. Other quotes about: books book Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
Quote link. Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.: "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom Other quotes by Plutarch.: "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing wise Other quotes by William Osler.: "Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never silence Other quotes by Publilius Syrus.: "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time deep Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time silence good deep lies Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time."
Quote link. Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: making Other quotes by Peter Drucker.: "Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain Other quotes by Simonides.: "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Seneca.: "Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Ovid.: "Tears at times have all the weight of speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence Other quotes by Seneca.: "It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature love words Other quotes by Ingrid Bergman.: "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Quote link. Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: house forget Other quotes by Rowan Atkinson.: "As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk never life Other quotes by Jacques Martin Barzun.: "If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america small men man today religion Other quotes by Colin Campbell.: "Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."
Quote link. Other quotes about: belief making sin Other quotes by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill.: "The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small wisdom Other quotes by Chuang-tzu.: "Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america people past hard look Other quotes by Mario M Cuomo.: "We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
Quote link. Other quotes by Demosthenes.: "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain answer Other quotes by The Dhammapada.: "Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power something law Other quotes by Laertius Diogenes.: "Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Orville Douglas.: "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think freedom Other quotes by Bergen.: "Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost day Other quotes by Brooks Hays.: "Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power freedom Other quotes by Yoshimi Ishikawa.: "Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human mind Other quotes by James Earl Jones.: "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first government Other quotes by Justice Anthony Kennedy.: "The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life game Other quotes by David Mamet.: "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."
Quote link. Other quotes by Julius Henry Marx.: "Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Peggy Noonan.: "I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk silence Other quotes by Saskya Pandita.: "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by William Penn.: "Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by James Barrett Scotty Reston.: "How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance Other quotes by William Safire.: "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man Other quotes by Alan Simpson.: "An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right day man peace person sin law Other quotes by Roger B. Taney.: "It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government fact Other quotes by Pierre Elliott Trudeau.: "I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence Other quotes by Martin Fraquhar Tupper.: "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise peace mind Other quotes by Maitri Upanishads.: "The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace."
Quote link. Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength world look Other quotes by Christa Wolf.: "To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self"
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Aprocrypha.: "Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art silence woman Other quotes by Tom Blair.: "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend live people silence light music friends alone Other quotes by Henry Bromel.: "After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
Quote link. Other quotes by Chrysippus.: "Thought is the fountain of speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need country Other quotes by Hansell B. Duckett.: "What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom good religion Other quotes by Robert Jackson.: "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Moralia.: "Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger Other quotes by Pythagoras.: "In anger we should refrain both from speech and action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength Other quotes by Maxims of Ptahhotep.: "Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jean Baptiste Rousseau.: "Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom Other quotes by Tiberius.: "In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature understand democracy rest country Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: human world nature mind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom Other quotes by Socrates.: "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom Other quotes by Kierkegaard.: "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god never freedom good conscience country Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change mind Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906"
Quote link. Other quotes about: art book Other quotes by Brendan Francis.: "A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Vincent McNabb.: "What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental men Other quotes by Walter Bagehot.: "The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency."
Quote link. Other quotes by Laurence J. Peter.: "Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery."

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