Speech Quotes

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. (Xenocrates)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech. View quote
Sophocles
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. View quote
Plutarch
Speech is the mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he. View quote
Publilius Syrus
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. View quote
Tiberius
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. View quote
Confucius
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. View quote
Pythagoras
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. View quote
Mark Twain
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In a well-governed country, speak boldly and act boldly. In a country where lawlessness prevails, let your actions be bold but your speech tactful. (Confucius)
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. View quote
Sophocles
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
Speech is the mirror of the soul. View quote
Publilius Syrus
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. View quote
George Washington
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. View quote
Mark Twain
Speech is the small change of silence. View quote
George Meredith
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. View quote
William O. Douglas
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Thomas Carlyle)
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. View quote
Louis Brandeis
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
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