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“Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.”

“A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.”

States Law Break Terrible Speech Criticism Treats Improvement Punishment Freedom Of Speech Suggestions Justified Treason Imposing Unwritten Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Kurt Huber

“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?”

Ifs World Giving Firsts War Home America Poor Opinion Democracy Broken Safe Speech Independent Presses Free Speech Brutal Uniforms Assembly Gangsters Outraged Broken Up Free Press Overbearing

Author:Emma Goldman

“I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.”

Interest Events Drama Speech Psychological

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?”

Opinion Heard Politician Speech Errors Creeds Theologian

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.”

Emotion Expression Circumstances Speech Stress Objectivity Adjectives Moss Dank

Author:Ezra Pound

“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.”

Source: Cavett

“Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.”

Has Beens Country America Term Struggle Century Speech Areas Free Speech

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.”

“The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the C.D.A. would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.”

Results Communication Internet Speech Adults Green Available Mediums Print Village Mail Decency

Author:Stewart Dalzell

“The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.”

Practice Speech Buddhist Prohibition

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.”

Ifs Men Should Care Able Wealth Speech Tongue Bent Restless Sweetest Greatest Wealth

Author:Elizabeth I

“They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!”

Wells Said Book Problem Drug Speech Ignored They Said

Author:Pat Paulsen

“I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.”

Thinking Speak Speech Constitution Trials Remembered Freedom Of Speech Jury Accusation Trial By Jury

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.”

Years Play Song Simple Sea Land Speech News Instruments Musical Regions Devices Principal Globes Lectures Musical Instruments Inexpensive

Book:The Wireless Tesla

Source: The Wireless Tesla

“I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.”

Persons Helping Problem Advice Subjects Exercise Conversation Speech Ideals Range You Choose Imaginary Right Person Eleanor

Book:Living History

Source: Living History

“People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.”

People Giving Believe Looks Easy Fool Speech Victim Impression Underestimate Underestimate Me

Author:Edgerrin James

“So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.”

War Belief Interest Sacrifice Speech Concerned Free Speech

Book:Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann

Source: Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann

“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.”

“One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'”

People Heard Speech Excellent Repeats

Author:Sam Horn

“We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.”

Ifs World War Lost Forget Speech Never Forget Vietnam Free Speech

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.”

World Running Able Universe Found Vision Lord Path Kings Taste Speech Hearing Intellect Smell Rationality

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.”

Knows Has Beens Done Night Courses President Virtue Speech Areas Organization Lists Terrorist Excellent Tuesday Lebanon Tuesday Night

Author:Brit Hume

“I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.”

People Thinking Sound Speech Jazz Concerts

Author:Mike Bass

“The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.”

World Beautiful Speech Freedom Of Speech Beautiful Things Ballparks Infantry Cast Away Over The Hill

Author:Diogenes

“From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.”

People Thinking World Feels Art Important Reason Use Bigs Today Wanted America Artist Lost Talent Becoming Speech Balls Irony Free Speech Offensive Lost Art

Author:Elton John

“Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.”

Writing Mind Speech Representation

Author:Aristotle

“There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.”

Dies Wise Heard Tree Speech Sat Spokes Owl

Author:Paul Ricoeur

“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.”

“The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.”

Persons Silence Speech Solutions Corporations

Author:Michael Kinsley

“You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.”

Ifs Trying Littles Bits Player Speech Little Bit Coaches Cards Always Trying

Author:Vince Kehres

“In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.”

Stories Use Language Particular Personality Conversation Speech Structure Rhythm Interviews Fascination Delivery Embedded Conducting Dialect Diction Spoken Language

Author:Steve Cosson

“People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.”

People Should Said Stories Might Running Next Winning Talking Husband Speech Election Clinton Democrat Presidential Shut Up Prominent Can't Win Presidential Election

Author:Conan O'Brien

“A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.”

Men Years Age Father Interest Pleasure Attitude Boys Watches Destiny Speech Senses Be A Man

Book:Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

“[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.”

People Country Interest Citizens Activity Speech Harm

Author:Thein Sein

“It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.”

“It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.”

Has Beens Lying Purpose Speech Forgotten Communicate Employed Concealing

Book:Seven Servants: Four Works

Source: Seven Servants: Four Works

“A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.”

Water Dangerous Speech Tales Planes Rebellion Free Speech Geek Files Techno Bottled Water File Sharing

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.”

Mind Form Fit Speech Command Impossibility

Book:Lilith

Source: Lilith

“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Believe Character Seems Audience Example Listening Scene Conflict Speech Happenings Defense Tricks Justified Another Way

Author:Ernest Lehman

“If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.”

Ifs Speech Coward Hacks

Author:Glenn Reynolds

“People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.”

People Two Seems Able Fall Acceptance Offers Speech Shoes Gaps Irrigation Acceptance Speech

Author:Hugh Laurie

“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”

Thinking Order Truth Is Speech Discussion

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.”

Speech Counterfeit

Book:Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches

Source: Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches

“I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.”

People Thinking Needs Has Beens Fighting My Own Rights Speech Soldier Free Speech

Author:Medea Benjamin

“We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.”

Doe Military Speech Iraq Free Speech Civilians

Author:Medea Benjamin

“When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in Europe, question 9/11 in America (unless you want the Ward Churchill treatment), but the West claims they're all about free speech.”

Want Needs America Turns Honesty Speech Europe Claims West Deny Treatment Als Holocaust Free Speech Journalistic

Author:Remi Kanazi

“The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".”

Children Said Night President Natural Speech Resources Natural Resources

Author:Emo Philips

“Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.”

Firsts Whole Stories Bigs Nations Speech Majors Determined Strikes Addresses Someday Prime Distraction Bin Laden Delivery Briefing Prime Time

Author:Frank Rich

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