Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
Deborah K. Ross
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We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we've got to figure out a way to keep America safe.
Valerie Jarrett
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I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
Greg Abbott
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We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie
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Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith
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The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government.
Chelsea Manning
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Ralph Richardson
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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
George Jessel
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
Pamela Meyer
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I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
Jim Jordan
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Eugenio Montale
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I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
Brian Helgeland
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
Mahavira
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
Jesse Jackson
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Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
Emily Robison
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You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.
Brad Paisley
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We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.
Madeline Brewer
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
John Hall
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I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.
Eliot Spitzer
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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Brit Hume
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Jack Kevorkian
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Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition to them, so Trump has gone across us. Free speech is first among equals when we look at what is being violated by this new regime.
Andrew Solomon
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