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| 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up |
| Winston Churchill |
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| A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. |
| Wilson Mizner |
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| A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. |
| D.H. Lawrence |
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| As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. |
| Marshall Lumsden |
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| Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. |
| Peter F. Drucker |
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| Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information |
| Mark Twain |
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| Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please |
| Mark Twain |
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| Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. |
| Colin Powell |
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| Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction (Proverbs 13:3). |
| Bible |
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| Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity |
| Gustave Flaubert |
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| Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. |
| Gustave Flaubert |
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| I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all |
| Gustave Flaubert |
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