#speech

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. ↗

— David Frum

#am #because #events #going #happen

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#current #first #freedom #freedom of speech #guaranteed

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#culture #i #i think #manifestation #our

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#applies #lies #make #makes #matter

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #continue #disrespectful #fail #i

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. ↗

— Hesiod

#happy #his #love #man #mouth

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#core #free #free speech #freedom #imperative