In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.
John Millington Synge

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
Nong Duc Manh

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.
Charles Keating

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Frank Murphy

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
John Hall

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
Dick Gephardt

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Kenneth Rexroth

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
Gareth Gates

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
Jules Feiffer

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Ira Hayes

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
George Jessel

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
Judge Dalzell

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Paul Fadiman