Quotes about Speech

Time is an illusion-to orators.

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.