My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence..

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world..

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

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you ex….

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born..

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much..

I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Oba….

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation ma….

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be hea….

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked..

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend..

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush..

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have..

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well..

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs..

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech be….

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech..

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesit….

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action..

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon,….

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell P….