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Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. -- Dennis Hastert
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. -- George Orwell
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. -- Markwayne Mullin
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. -- Noam Chomsky
Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. -- David Whyte
Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court. -- Marsha Blackburn
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. -- Pranab Mukherjee
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power. -- Ted Cruz
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. -- James L. Buckley
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both. -- Dick Gephardt
When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out. -- Paula Poundstone
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance. -- Stanley Hauerwas
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections. -- Hank Johnson
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot. -- LZ Granderson
In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned. -- Eliot Spitzer
I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language. -- Jason Mraz
If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty. -- David Souter
Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation. -- Edward Norton
We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious. -- Killer Mike
Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced. -- Mason Cooley
Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking. -- Martha Roth
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be! -- Chuck D
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. -- Molly Corbett Broad
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. -- Gabriela Mistral
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We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech. -- Medea Benjamin
from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power... -- William J. Clinton
The Ku Klux Klan stands for free speech, free public schools, the open Bible for our people and for 100% American citizenship. -- James Brice
Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production. -- Herbert Hoover
God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies. -- Heinrich Heine
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements. -- George Polya
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical. -- Michel de Montaigne
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. -- Daniel J. Levitin
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. -- Daniel J. Levitin
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. -- Washington Gladden
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. -- Stephen Chbosky
The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that". -- Emo Philips
I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard. -- Junot Diaz
It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome"¦ "This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced. -- Marine Le Pen
What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech. -- Vance Havner
Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech. -- David Frawley
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. -- Stewart Dalzell
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] -- Northrop Frye
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech. -- John Steinbeck
Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book. -- Arun Manilal Gandhi

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