Impact of Speech Quotes

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

What you say is what matters.

The unspoken word never does harm.

When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet - it wants to know what my opinion is.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.