Speaker Independent Speech

Famous quotes containing the words speaker, independent and/or speech:

    “Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Milton’s the prince of poets—so we say;
    A little heavy, but no less divine:
    An independent being in his day—”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)