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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to read more
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
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.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have read more
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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.