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I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.


Tom Stoppard

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VOLTAIRE I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
EVELYN BEATRICE HALL I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of su...
I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
CLAUDE ARIEN HELVETIUS I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TALLENTYRE I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
OSCAR WILDE I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
UNKNOWN I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
N. B.: ...
S. G. TALLENTYRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been...
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WENDELL SAY Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says.
SUZANNE COLLINS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have t...
HOWARD SCHULTZ That’s why I don’t have a religion. I don’t want to have to say that, okay, I agree with everythi...
BILL MAHER I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say ...
NORM CROSBY I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you ne...
BLAKE LIVELY I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAK What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my h...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN Okay... there isn't problem...!
- I will accept what u say I will agree with u say, because I ...
DEYTH BANGER I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man woul...
NEIL YOUNG I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's goin...
DALE MURPHY You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you...
DANIEL KEYES People from the party did ask if I would agree to a time frame to say yes or no and I said, 'No, I w...
HARRY KIM I would say right now it would be a stretch to say we could have five teams in bowls.
CRAIG THOMPSON I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your li...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yea...
BRUCE GREENWOOD There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
HOWARD DEAN Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yea...
BRUCE GREENWOOD What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ I may be right if I say you were wrong. But you will be wrong if you say I was right
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STEPHEN HARPER People say follow your heart,but I gave it to you.
VICTORIA BOGARIN I don't have anything to say. I appreciate your interest. I just have nothing to say right now.
CLARK FREEMAN I agree with what the Chairman [Greenspan] said whatever it is that he did say.
BOB RUBIN Everybody in the stands saw it. I would like to say a lot, but with my love for the game and the int...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don...
STEPHEN HARPER It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has ...
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ELLA HENDERSON I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everythi...
LIZ GOLDWYN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN Saying, “I don’t agree with you,” or going so far as to say, “I think your belief structure ...
GUDJON BERGMANN We agree with the preliminary diagnosis, which is a heart attack, a sudden death from heart failure.
LEO BOKERIA I would say it was nice to meet you, but I was naked so… it wasn’t.
SAMANTHA YOUNG I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
JACK KEVORKIAN Everyone has a weakness but I happen to have two. Everything you say and everything you do.
MICHAELA D. The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.
SHARON LEE I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A se...
ERIN MORGENSTERN I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'...
BILLY CRUDUP What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you don’...
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AVISHAI MARGALIT If you would think that all the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional drafting committee would say, 'OK,...
LAITH KUBBA My silence doesn't mean that I agree to what you say. It could be a sign of ignorance too.
PANCHATAPA GOSWAMI As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say t...
IDRIS ELBA I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to...
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FAY WRAY People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to...
JESSICA SIMPSON To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward you...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do ev...
JENNIFER TILLY I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
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SUSAN C. YOUNG They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your...
STEVE EARLE I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for yo...
TAMSIN EGERTON There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building...
VICTORIA AZARENKA I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.
CATHERINE LACEY I lived for you. And I lived for Will, and then I lived for Tessa - and for myself, because I wanted...
CASSANDRA CLARE Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped ...
ALICE SEBOLD The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI What you say may very well be true, but I would feel better hearing what the doctor has to say.
GARY BASS Everyone wants to have their say. It sucks, though, when having one's say, another's say is diminish...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Effective communication is based upon a structured dialogue: You talk; I listen; I tell you what I h...
TERENCE T. GORSKI The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren a...
TERRY PRATCHETT When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' t...
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BILLY CRUDUP I really empathize with someone who takes on something like that. People are so quick to make the ea...
GILBERT CHAVARRIA It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you...
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TOM STOPPARD I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have...
TOM STOPPARD My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally ...
TOM STOPPARD Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
TOM STOPPARD There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man...
TOM STOPPARD Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We...
TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...
TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
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TOM STOPPARD