Quotes about Speech

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

You have control over three things: what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life. —SONYA FRIEDMAN

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Prayer is speech at its most alive. The breath that is breathed into us by God we breathe back to God.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.