(1353 quotes found)
“I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.”
Jon Stewart
“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax”
Thomas Paine
“A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.”
Brendan Francis
“No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation”
Daniel Webster
