Quotes about Speech

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.