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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Speech
Thomas Jefferson

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It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Audiences
Dan Kennedy

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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Freedom of Speech
Soren Kierkegaard

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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Places
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
Freedom of Speech
Marshall Lumsden

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It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
Freedom
Leo Mckern

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Speech is the small change of silence.
Speech
George Meredith

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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
Uncategorised
Richard M. Nixon

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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Speech
Peggy Noonan

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Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.
Freedom of Speech
Georgia O'Keeffe

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Politicians and Politics
George Orwell

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir William Osler

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Speakers and Speaking
Harold Pinter

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

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Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Speech
Antoine Rivarol

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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Liberty
Will Rogers

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Freedom of Speech
Salman Rushdie

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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Speakers and Speaking
William Safire

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Speech is always bolder than action.
Speech
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Literature is the immortality of speech.
Literature
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

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When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Speakers and Speaking
Seneca

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I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
Style
William Shakespeare

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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Conversation
George Bernard Shaw

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Speech is the mirror of action.
Speech
Solon

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun