And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
David Icke
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I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
Antonin Scalia
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
Kate Forsyth
PeopleMeSpeechSoundDifficult
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it's problematic.
Megyn Kelly
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Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.
Dave Rubin
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Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.
Anthony Kennedy
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We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to be an anti-Muslim bigot, on campus or off, CAIR is free to challenge their bigotry by speaking out against the promotion of hatred and intolerance.
Ibrahim Hooper
ChallengeFreeBelieveStrongSpeech
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
John Mellencamp
GoodSchoolSpeechExerciseClass
It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.
Charles B. Rangel
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt
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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Matthew Simpson
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
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When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.
Powers Boothe
WorkSpeechLongOutAlongLike
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
Gareth Gates
LifeMy LifeSpeechBigPartHaving
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards
SpeechKnowSeeSeemDefineLike
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
Alex Berenson
EnoughSpeechRecognitionPersonal
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
SilenceStorySpeechMuch
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn
MusicWordsPeopleMeThinkSpeech
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
John Wesley Powell
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We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
Alan Dershowitz
FreedomSpeechSecretsImportantAct
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Peggy Noonan
GreatSpeechMagicPolicyWithout
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
Abraham Lincoln
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It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.
Amy Heckerling
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