Speech Quotes
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
Winston S. Churchill
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
Theodore Roosevelt
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Colin Powell
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
Henry Louis Mencken
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time
Thomas Carlyle
Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
“Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets itâ€
William Feather
