Speech Quotes

“The march of the flag!”

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

“They could take my career, but they could not take my voice.”

“Being asked what was the best and worst thing for men, he said, 'The tongue.'”

“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“For it is not the orator's words that I begrudge, but his actions, and his dispositions.”

“I know there are a number of you who have strong feelings about me. And I know I'll never be able to change those feelings. But what I want you to know is you've made your voices heard.”

“We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that.”

“The platform is my pulpit.”

“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”

“There will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.”

“Guard your tongue in youth, and in age you may mature a thought that will be of service to your people.”

“Look, I've got a lot of 'I's' in this speech... but this is a day for 'I's'. This is a day for 'me's'. This is a day for 'my's'.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“Eloquence: The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be.”

“Political correctness is a war on noticing.”

“Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.”

“I am against any and all forms of censorship.”

“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”