I thought a lot about our nation and what I should do as president. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two proble...ms of our country--energy and malaise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a... Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words home, Christ, ale, master, on his li...ps and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit. His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: ...it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere i...n the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want ... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear ... anywhere in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is char...acteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the a...nalysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speak the speech ... trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it ... I had as lief the town crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not... saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »