Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
I voted fror Trump because I genuinely thought that Hillary Clinton was a threat to the American experiment. I usually do not talk in those big terms, but she did not believe in free speech, her hatred of the Citizens United ruling indicated to me that she believed that speech should be controlled. I voted for Trump, 5% of my mind was thinking the guy is Hitler. There was a five percent chance that I am making a huge mistake.
We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys. We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech.
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches. " And I started to panic.
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.