“Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.” MadeUsedBehindsSpeechBeatsScandalAbsentFacetious Author:Jean de La Fontaine
“Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.” PeopleMenHumansDoeMadeRunningPoliticsLostTalkingDoubtSpeechVoteHarmBryan Author:Will Rogers
“When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.” MenWorldWayWellsMadeMorningHumourSpeechComfortableSakeWarm Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.” FirstsMeanMadeLawLanguageSimpleRoomsSpeechPressesCongressAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentInferenceSimple Words Author:Hugo Black
“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.” ThinkingMenHumansMadeLife IsLyingSocialKnowingProductsSpeechHuman LifePhysiological Book:Mist: A Tragicomic Novel Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel
“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .” MenMadeSaidBodyMightSpiritTakenEventsFitSpeechMadProphetProphecyCavesMad MenOraclesIntoxicatedVaporGentilesDelphi Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan