Quotes about Speech
An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.
- Timothy Lane
Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
- Ted Deutch
To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.
- Dale Carnegie
Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
- Dale Carnegie
Your tongue follows correctness; your heart follows truth.
- Dallas Willard
Practice in not speaking can at least give us enough control over what we say that our tongues do not "go off" automatically. This discipline provides us with a certain inner distance that gives us time to consider our words fully and the presence of mind to control what we say and when we say it.
- Dallas Willard
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
- St. Anthony of Padua
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
- St. John Chrysostom
Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.
- Wendell Berry
when she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire
- William Faulkner
Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.
- William Faulkner
Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.
- Henry Ward Beecher