Speech Quotes

It is dangerous to speak the truth to tyrants.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

All I claim, all I plead for, is liberty of thought and expression. That is all. I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true. I do not pretend to tell all the truth..

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

All critics should be assassinated.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.