Quotes about Speech
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Joel Osteen
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
- Cicero
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
- Frederick Douglass
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.
- Mark Twain
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
- Abbie Hoffman
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
- Billy Graham
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
- Epictetus
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.
- Mark Twain
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
- Proverbs 27:14
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 13:5
The tongue has the power of life and death. It's not some abracadabra incantation, but sometimes you have to say it like you believe it. Jesus literally spoke to the wind and the waves, right?
- Mark Batterson