"Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp"
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"It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene."
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"His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract."
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"I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one."
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"Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc."
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"He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech."
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"No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech."
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"Speech is civilization itself."
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"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
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"Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence."
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"Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up."
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"Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam."
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"Tears at times have the weight of speech."
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"Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights."
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"I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all"
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"Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table."
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"When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others"
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"I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace."
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"I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced"
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"I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans."
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