It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

`` Senator '', said an interviewer, `` your constituents can't understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question ''.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

In his speech accepting the nomination, Johnson said that by taking a nominee from a seceding state, " the Union Party declared its belief that the rebellious states are still in the Union, that their loyal citizens are still citizens of the United States.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

In 1944, Joseph Stalin said in a speech that artillery was " the God of War ".

On 19 June 1920 Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Smyth made a speech to the ranks of the Listowel RIC in which he was reported as having said:

Trumbo said in a speech given in 1970 that there was blame on all sides:

In some cultures, they are also said to be capable of human speech.

" At this speech he also said: " Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...."

In a speech delivered on November 15, 1867, Douglass said " A man's rights rest in three boxes.

In his speech at the presentation of the medal, Alexander Graham Bell said:

For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

In the House Adams became a champion of free speech, demanding that petitions against slavery be heard despite a " gag rule " that said they could not be heard.

In his 1933 speech, " Radio as the Eighth Great Power " he said:

In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler had said:

'" In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress who played Brown, said " I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

Polk made his first major speech on March 13, 1826, in which he said that the Electoral College should be abolished and that the President should be elected by the popular vote.

During his acceptance speech, Cagney lightly chastised impressionist Frank Gorshin, saying, " Oh, Frankie, just in passing, I never said ' MMMMmmmm, you dirty rat!

Against the strong advice of his campaign team, he made several controversial statements ; including one that said Islam was " a backward culture ", that no more asylum seekers would be allowed into the country, and, if necessary, the possible repeal of anti-racism clauses in the Dutch Constitution to protect freedom of speech.

During the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, he stated the Pope's speech was " intelligent and necessary.

In August 1931, at the urging of his wife, Elijah Poole attended a speech on Islam and black empowerment by Wallace D. Fard.

Jan De Zutter criticized Elst for being too close with the Vlaams Belang, as in June 1992, Koenraad Elst gave a speech directed against Islam at the Vlaams Blok Colloquium where the party proposed its first version of its 70 point anti-immigration policy Elst said that he spoke there because it was the only party where the " problem of Islam " was brought up, but that he also explicitly said that he did not agree with the party's solution for that problem, and disapproved of their xenophobia.

In a speech in October 1966 Bhutto declared the PPP's beliefs, " Islam is our faith, democracy is our policy, socialism is our economy.

The report replaced words from a 2009 speech made by Xenophon and turned it into an attack on Islam, ostensibly to pit Malay-Muslim opinion against the senator, who was a known associate of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

According to Ahmad this age did not require defending Islam by the sword but that the Jihad of this age was to be carried out by preaching and defending Islam by speech and by the pen.

Táhirih then arose and began a speech on the break from Islam.

The Middle East Forum has established a Legal Project to protect researchers and analysts who work on the topics of terrorism, terrorist funding, and radical Islam from lawsuits designed to silence their exercise of free speech.

The Middle East Forum established the Legal Project in June, 2007, in order to protect researchers and analysts who work on the topics of terrorism, terrorist funding, and radical Islam from predatory lawsuits designed to silence their exercise of free speech.

In a speech following the Bali attacks Bashir stated, " I support Osama bin Laden's struggle because his is the true struggle to uphold Islam.

After the speech, the nurse's aide invited Sanders to join the Nation of Islam ; Sanders politely declined.

The contest was created in response to Muhammad cartoons published by a Danish newspaper ( see Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy ), under the notion that those who supported the right to free speech in matters concerning Islam would be placed in a precarious position were they to condemn the antisemitic cartoons aimed to mock and ridicule the Jewish Holocaust.

He championed free speech, especially the right to criticize Islam without compromise.

Hashem Aghajari () also Seyyed Hashem Aghajari ( born ~ 1957 ) is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to " not blindly follow " Islamic clerics.

This prompted an " immediate outcry " from hard-line clerics, who claimed that he was attacking " the Prophet of Islam and fundamental Shiite Islamic traditions ", although Dr. Aghajari has repeatedly denied that his speech was intended as an attack on Islam or the Prophet.

Karpal even once said " an Islamic state over my dead body " regarding the debate during a political speech which has led to him being portrayed as an enemy of Islam.

In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2006, Bush, while challenging the Middle East to push for reform and choose freedom over extremism, sought to reassure Muslims that the West is not at war with Islam but " respect " the religion and wants peace, and Iraqis of the American commitment to their security.

* Fitna, 2008 Dutch film about Islam, which led to worldwide Muslim protests and a hate speech trial

Professor Heinz Klatt argues that hate laws, speech codes, cowardice, and political correctness have resulted in an intellectually repressive atmosphere in modern day academic circles, with widespread self-censorship on topics like homosexuality, ( learning ) disabilities, Islam, and genetic differences between human races and sexes.

The three Muslims, along with the Islamic Council of Victoria, later launched action under the controversial Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, claiming that the intent of the speech had been to vilify Muslims, rather than to discuss Islam itself.