#speech

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ↗

— William Penn

#end #few #ostentation #plainly #properly

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

— Laurence J. Peter

#angry #best #ever #make #regret

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? ↗

— Dennis Potter

#create #human #leap #metaphor #speech

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#gives #graduate #heads #high #high school

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#dedicated #freedom #freedom of speech #gaza #hamas

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' ↗

— Robin Quivers

#free speech #had #heard #jefferson #probably

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#internal #speech #thought

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#knowing #much #not knowing #problem #speeches

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ↗