(1353 quotes found)
“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec”
Rosa Luxemburg
“There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory”
Mark Twain
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black
“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”
William Shakespeare
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman
“It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.”
Johnny Depp
“The most precious things in speech are pauses”
Ralph Richardson
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”
Thomas Carlyle
