#speech

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime. ↗

— Frank Serpico

#becoming #crime #free #free speech #harder

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

#devastated #expectation #gives #hurt #speech

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#her #lacks #power #she #speech

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conversation #had #lost #power #she

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#bondage #chains #free #free speech #had

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. ↗

— Sivananda

#bad #composed #consequences #details #drops

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

#ambition #desire #directing #great #instrument

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#always #crucial #every #i #i think

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. ↗

— Kate Smith

#before #bless #committee #democratic #during

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#remains #silence #speech