Quotes about Speech

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.

He spoke in a series of gruff barks, and held himself so rigidly that if he had swallowed a poker it could only have produced unseemly curves and flexions in his figure.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Man's word is God in man.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

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