If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Stephen Sondheim

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Herodotus

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
Floyd Abrams

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.
Leo Burnett

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuang Zi

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
Michael Caine

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. Taylor

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Sophocles

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia