Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick MacGill

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
George Weinberg

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
William Gilmore Simms

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Joanna Southcott

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Steve Forbes

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.
William Wetmore Story

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Augustus Hare

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.
David Letterman

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren

See and keep silent.
Francis Walsingham

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Thomas de Quincey