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It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.
It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free
speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. read more
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free
speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is
the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational
fears.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
And not as Moses, which read more
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
speech:
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that
which is abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the
same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ.
To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.")
[Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]
To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.")
[Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]
Though I say't that should not say't.
Though I say't that should not say't.
Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.