Kings Speech Quotes

#1. Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.

George Orwell

#2. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

David Maraniss

#4. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

Van Jones

#6. We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

Alice Cooper

#7. When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I think it must be one of those things where no one's wrong and everybody loses.

Elizabeth Langston

#9. He was the worst kind of confident. Not only was he shamelessly aware of his appeal, he was so used to women throwing themselves at him that he regarded my cool demeanor as refreshing instead of an insult.

Jamie McGuire

#10. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Hesiod

#12. Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those
Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!
All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see
's been dubbed by [Us] into RP,
Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us]
your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

Tony Harrison

#13. The time is always right to do right

Nelson Mandela

#14. When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

Jimmy Buffett

#15. Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.

Simon Sinek