Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

—Jean Baptiste Rousseau

More quotations tagged with “speech”

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

—Hansell B. Duckett

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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11 Jul 2015 Added