And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
Ron Davies

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
Joanna Lumley

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita

Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Adlai Stevenson

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Roman Jakobson

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
Muriel Rukeyser

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
Lucy Stone

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
Alice Hamilton

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
Harry Dean Stanton

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
Adrian Cronauer

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
Harry Dean Stanton

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.
Tipper Gore

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe Hooper

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
Hugo Black