If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, ‘We shouldn’t have free speech.’ – Robin Quivers
Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe. – Patrick Chappatte
I haven’t heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. – Roman Jakobson
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. – Pranab Mukherjee
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. – Saint Ignatius
Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon’s involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president. – Ronald Kessler
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning. – Roman Jakobson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. – Robert Louis Stevenson
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. – Seamus Heaney
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can’t say it myself. – Patrick Campbell
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio. – Seth Shostak
I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that’s new to the president of the United States. – Ted Deutch
I couldn’t speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense. – Walter Dean Myers
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired. – Tobe Hooper
Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. – Shane Leslie
For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, ‘I’m going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.’ – Susanne Bier
Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement. – Terry Teachout
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it. – Stephen Hawking
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech. – Stockwell Day
When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas. – Ted Olson
