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Tag Name "Speech" (1805)

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Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
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I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.
Hillary Clinton
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There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
Richard M. Nixon
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Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
Walt Disney
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
Daniel Webster
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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford
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Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.
Walt Whitman
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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
Steven Hatfill
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
Amelia Barr
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Walter Kirn
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The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.
Walter Lippmann
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So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
Walter Lippmann
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What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.
John Bartholomew Gough
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Ambrose Bierce
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott
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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
Walter Scott
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Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.
Walter Wriston
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I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you’re going to have to lie,” Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.
Amanda Hocking
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A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
Samuel Chadwick
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
Washington Gladden
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
Vladimir Lenin
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What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
Henry David Thoreau
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When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.
John Steinbeck
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