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We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Speech is the mirror of action.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Speech happens to not be his language.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.