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| The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. | Antoine Rivarol | 1753-1801, French Journalist, Epigrammatist |
| Literature is the immortality of speech. | August Wilhelm Von Schlegel | 1767-1845, German Poet, Critic |
| We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ?20 B.C., Greek Historian |
| We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. | Eleanor Holmes Norton | |
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| We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, ''That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.'' You never heard a real American talk in that manner. | Frank Hague | |
| If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose. | Georgia O'Keeffe | American painter |
| The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. | Grace | Patricia) Kelly (1929-82, American Actress and Princess of Monaco |
| Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. | Hannah Arendt | 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett | |
| I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech. | Jim Murray | American Author |
| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? | Kin Hubbard | 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist |
| It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
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| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | Marshall Lumsden | |
| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. | Otto Von Bismarck | 1815-1898, Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister |
| From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer.'' I can't say it myself. | Patrick Campbell | 1913-1980, Irish Humorist |
| For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower. | Paul Goodman | 1911-1972, American Author, Poet, Critic |
| Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. | Peggy Noonan | 1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter |
| If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. | Prince of Wales Charles | 1948-, Duke of Edinburgh, Son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip |
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| I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
| Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| 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 | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. | Soren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. | Source Unknown | |
| Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. | Tatyana Tolstaya | |
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| An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgement, in that it creates. | Thomas Mann | 1875-1955, German Author, Critic |
| Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. | Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright |
| When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| 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 T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behaviour, career, and sexual orientation. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. | Norman Thomas | 1884-1968, American Socialist Leader |
| That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
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