The most precious things
in speech are the pauses.
?Sir Ralph Richardson
Whatever words we utter should be
chosen with care for people will hear them and
be influenced by them for good or ill.
?Buddha
It usually takes more than three weeks
to prepare a good impromptu speech.
?Mark Twain
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance
or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
?William Safire
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation
for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
?Kierkegaard
Today's public figures can no longer
write their own speeches or books,
and there is some evidence
that they can't read them either.
?Gore Vidal
It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either.
?Mark Twain
Well-timed silence hath more
eloquence than speech.
?Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Under all speech that is good for
anything there lies a silence that
is better. Silence is deep as Eternity;
speech is shallow as Time.
?Thomas Carlyle
Free speech is intended to protect
the controversial and even outrageous
word; and not just comforting platitudes
too mundane to need protection.
?General Colin Powell
Freedom of speech and freedom of
action are meaningless without freedom
to think. And there is no
freedom of thought without doubt.
?Bergen Evans
People demand freedom of speech
as a compensation for the freedom
of thought which they seldom use.
?Kierkegaard
