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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. (Quote by - Warren E. Burger)

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. (Quote by - Ellen Burstyn)

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. (Quote by - Marlee Matlin)

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. (Quote by - Karl Popper)

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats. (Quote by - Ann Coulter)

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. (Quote by - Bible)

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. (Quote by - Bergen Evans)

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace. (Quote by - Ernest Istook)

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts. (Quote by - Homer)

Tears at times have the weight of speech. (Quote by - Ovid)

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. (Quote by - William Safire)

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides! (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Speech is silvern, silence is golden. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. (Quote by - John McGahern)

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. (Quote by - Plato)

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