Speech Quotes

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost" "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." "Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question." "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true" "There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words." "Words are spades digging the cairns of those who can't speak" "Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair" "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used" "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large" "Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech is shallow as Time" "Music is well said to be the speech of angels" "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change" "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech." "Words are all we have" "Men speak of mirth and write of sorrow" "The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak" "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound." "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."