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"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." »Martin Niemller
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"For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues." »Sophocles
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"in Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." »Martin Niemller
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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you" »Walt Whitman
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"We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them." »Cato the Elder
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare
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"Talking and eloquence are not the same to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." »Ben Johnson
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"If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where." »Anonymous
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"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us." »Unknown
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"Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly." »Benjamin Franklin
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"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge." »Napolean Hill
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"I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to" »Clarence Darrow
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"It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear." »Henry David Thoreau
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"speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"There is a homely old adage which runs speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things." »Hesiod
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"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Never speak more clearly than you think." »Jeremy Bernstein
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"Do as most do, and men will speak well of you." »Thomas Fuller
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"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent." »Sextus Propertius
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"Do not speak ill of the dead." »The Seven Sages
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"He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak." »Ausonius
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"The fact speak for themselves." »Demosthenes
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"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." »Lao Tzu
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." »Epictetus
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"If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"speak of the devil and he appears." »Italian Proverb
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