"Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover"
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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity."
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"when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say."
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"There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy."
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"My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all."
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"Speech is great, but silence is greater."
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"During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches."
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"There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided."
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"Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage."
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"Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers."
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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
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"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence."
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"His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."
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"The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything."
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"Simple is the speech of truth."
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"The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'"
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"Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key."
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