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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Joanna Lumley

Freedom

Sense

Speech

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Bela Lugosi

Language

Speech

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

George Henry Lewes

Power

Speech

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

Day

Speech

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

Thomas Lennon

Speech

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

Bela Kun

Speech

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.