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“He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.”

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Author:William Kristol

“It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.”

Way Should Speech Beats Tiresome

Author:Plautus

“He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.”

Men Should Speech Judgment Concern Mercy Preaching Ambassadors Lightness

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.”

Men Should Reason Cases Seeing Objects Strange Speech Argument Extremes Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Validity

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Power should answer by action, not by speech.”

Should Action Answers Power Speech

Author:Austin O'Malley

“We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?”

Thinking Should Humans Littles Speech Highest Regard Incredibles Pops Beer Odd Instant Bottles Earthquakes Flicker Devouring Ginger

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.”

Should Speech Ill Knives Freedom Of Speech Blunt

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.”

Ifs Should Truth Process Black Justice Courage Honest Speech Argument Criticism Bravery Debate Secure Disguise Dissent Vigorous Sneak Sinister

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.”

Should Humans Spirit Poor Powerful Wonderful Proud Creatures Speech Mouths Devil Mere Driven Proceeding

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!”

Ifs Men World Should Whole Would Be Truth Speak Speech Agree Invisible Whole World Spiders

Book:.) (1850).

Source: .) (1850).

“In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.”

“All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.”

Ifs Should Issues Serious Speech Constitution Burden Heavy Harm Certainty Relative Protected Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Censored Heavy Burdens

Book:Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism

Source: Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism

“Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others.”

Should Ideas Values Individual Speak Speech Gains Concerned Direct Should Have Collectives Censorship Interchange Personal Values

Author:Charles Rembar

“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.”

Ifs Thinking Should Individual Speak Freedom Progress Mankind Depends Speech Mass Objectives Individualism Free Thought

Author:Louis J. Halle

“Speech should be fruitful as well as free.”

Should Wells Speech

Book:Government and Mass Communications

Source: Government and Mass Communications

“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.”

Should Company Speech Standards Deserve Libertarian Polite Propriety Defective Standards Set

Author:Ilana Mercer

“We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.”

Should Silence Speech Sensitive Thread Woven Tissues

Book:The Prose of the World

Source: The Prose of the World

“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes

“That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.”

World Should Said Fighting Fire Communication Balance Speech Blessed Remains Threat Strikes Instant Mutual Free Speech Cursed Mutual Respect Instant Communication

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.”

People Should Believe Stills Fall Lines Speech Scary Freedom Of Speech Mockery

Author:Emily Robison

“The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.”

Men Should Speech Regard Superiors Sincere Sincerity Anxious Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?”

Should Speech Cat Communicate Contempt

Book:Two Cats, Three Tales

Source: Two Cats, Three Tales

“I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.”

Thinking Should Speech Fruit

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.”

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Author:Mary McGrory

“Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.”

Knows Men Should May Long Study Ignorance Please Speech Every Man Torture Speakers Oratory Long Speeches

Author:Owen Feltham

“It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.”

Should Numbers United States Communication Speech England

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”

“There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.”

Should Children Doe Social Environment Speech Social Environment

Author:Maria Montessori

“The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.”

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Author:Phil Donahue

“Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?”

Men Should Reason Able Speak Born Speech Every Man Faculty

Author:Benjamin Whichcote

“A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?”

Want Should Culture Cities Speech Built Profit Guilty Minorities Ireland Free Speech Should I Mud Bud Decadence

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.”

Should Humans Together Used Voice Silence Speech Bad Ass Powerlessness

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.”

Should Believe Persons Action Influence Speech Office Praise Distance Refuse Communicate Miles Satisfied Right Action

Book:Essays, First and Second Series

Source: Essays, First and Second Series

“Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.”

Should Views Speech Commitment Majority Contrary Overwhelming Free Speech Monument

Author:Al Gore

“It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.”

Thinking Knows Should Speech

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”

Ifs Should Lying House Church Five Society Minutes Speech Statements Manners Five Minutes

Book:The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.”

“Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.”

Should Speech Aggressive Association Free Speech Confined Disobedience Civil Disobedience Vindication

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.”

“In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).”

Should Done Christian Church Walks Plans Blessing Speech Christian Life Dealings Chastisement

Author:Albert C. Barnes

“The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.”

“The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.”

Should Humans May Ideas War Seems Moral Practice Morality Speech Framework Medieval Apes Civilisation Barbarians Quaint

Author:Eric Corley

“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.”

Should Said Subjects Speech Accounts Motive

Book:The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.”

Should Views Speech Point Of View Free Speech Censored

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.”

“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.”

Should Persons Book Would Be Able Speech Clarity Outlines Puzzled Open Book Sharpness Exactness Paine Montesquieu

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“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

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