Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)