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• I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Trials

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Song, Simple, Land

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Advice, Helping

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

  Edgerrin James

  Believe, People, Giving

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• So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Sacrifice, Belief

  Walter Lippmann, John Morton Blum (1985). “Public philosopher: selected letters of Walter Lippmann”, Book Sales

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• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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• One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

  Sam Horn

  People, Excellent, Heard

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• We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Vietnam, World

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• You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Running, Kings, Smell

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• I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

  Mike Bass

  Thinking, People, Sound

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

  Diogenes

  Beautiful, Freedom Of Speech, World

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• From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.

  Elton John

  Art, Thinking, America

  "Eminem's Homophobic 'Rap God' Lyrics Spark Media Frenzy". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 18, 2013.

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• Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Mind, Representation

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• There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree
  The less he spoke the more he heard
  The more he heard the less he spoke
  Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree?
  Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Wise, Tree, Owl

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• It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

  Zell Miller

  Veterans Day, Military, Army

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

  Michael Kinsley

  Silence, Corporations, Persons

  "Michael Kinsley: The solution to money in politics" by Michael Kinsley, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2014.

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• You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.

  Vince Kehres

  Player, Always Trying, Cards

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

  Steve Cosson

  Personality, Fascination, Diction

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Husband, Winning

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• A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

  Benjamin Spock

  Attitude, Father, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• [...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

  Thein Sein

  Country, People, Citizens

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• It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.

  Nadine Strossen

  Country, Appreciation, School

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• It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

  Wilfred Bion

  Lying, Purpose, Forgotten

  Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Water, Geek, Rebellion

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• I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

  George MacDonald

  Mind, Fit, Form

  George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.13, Booklassic

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