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Letter "S" » Speech
«By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.»
Author: Harry A. Blackmun
| About:
Censorship,
Discretion,
Speech
| Keywords:
censorship, chills, discretion, free speech, grant, license, official, placing, statute, threat
«Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Criticism,
Freedom,
Government,
Press,
Speech
| Keywords:
amendment, embraces, free speech, parts of speech, part of speech, portions, sanctuary
«Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.»
Author: James C. Humes
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
Britain, Churchill, emotionally, German, invested, invested with, Speeches, utterances
«Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio
(Actor)
| About:
Brothers,
Speech
| Keywords:
brothers, Say Anything, sit in, to each other
«Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
axes, axis, favors, free speech, slacked, slacking
«Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.»
«Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
commencement, eschew, eschewed, nonetheless, partisans, preference, smacks
«Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Leadership,
Management,
Solution,
Speech
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, defined, liked, Speeches
«Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Communication,
Discretion,
Speech
| Keywords:
agreeably, discretion, eloquence, in good order
«Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information»
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