Pastoral Resources

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

A great speech is literature.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.