Quotes of: Political-speech Keyword

They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.

French

Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as "name-calling", employing "glittering generalities", "plain folks" identifications, "card stacking", "bandwagon" devices, and so on. Such devices could be identified easily in many r...

Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning...

The Space Race

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. Th...

Hillary Rodham Clinton

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

Killosophy

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Tim Fargo

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Michel Templet

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Alan Dershowitz

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Frank Murphy

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Mortimer

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

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

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

David Frum

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

John Leo

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

Sam Harris