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Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention. -- Keith Henson
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. -- John Abbott
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. -- Voltaire
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas. -- William O. Douglas
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism. -- Catherine L. Albanese
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. -- Jay Sekulow
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -- Gore Vidal
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. -- Benjamin Franklin
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do. -- Hillary Clinton
Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful. -- Mark McKinnon
My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct. -- Bob Sheppard
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. -- Christopher Dodd
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. -- Lucy Stone
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. -- Pete Wilson
In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club. -- Mario Cuomo
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech. -- James L. Buckley
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. -- Abraham Lincoln
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president. -- Mark McKinnon
There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished. -- Robert Teeter
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. -- Ira Glass
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. -- Mario Cuomo
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech. -- Ted Alexandro
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. -- Jay Sekulow
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech. -- Oliver Herford
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety. -- Tulip Siddiq
The Ku Klux Klan stands for free speech, free public schools, the open Bible for our people and for 100% American citizenship. -- James Brice
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. -- Albert J. Nock
But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech. -- Benjamin Franklin
A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats. -- Dana Perino

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