Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.