| Author |
Quotes |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language |
| Arabian Proverb | When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. |
| Bergen Evans | Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. |
| Bible | Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. |
| Bible | Miss not the discourse of the elders. |
| Bible | But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. |
| Bible | Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. |
| Bible | Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. |
| Bible | But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. |
| Bible | O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. |
| Bible | A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. |
| Bible | I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. |
| Buddha | Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. |
| General Colin Powell | Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. |
| Gore Vidal | Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. |
| Jean Galbert de Campistron | The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. |
| Kierkegaard | People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
| Kierkegaard | People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
| Louis D Brandeis | Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression 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. |
| Martin Fraquhar Tupper | Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. |
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