“Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.”
Winston Churchill
“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”
Dale Carnegie
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
Abbie Hoffman
“Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
“Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted”
Henry Louis Mencken
“There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
Salman Rushdie