The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech.We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

-Rodriguez, Richard
  Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms.The first isfreedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world.The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world.The third is freedom from want† The fourth is freedom from fear.

-Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano)
  Third inaugural address, 6 Jan.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.4, l.72^3.

What worlds delight, or joy of living speech Can heart, so plunged in sea of sorrows deep, And heape'  d with so huge misfortunes, reach? The careful cold beginneth for to creep, And in my heart his iron arrow steep, Soon as I think upon my bitter bale.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 7, stanza 39.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silenceöfree of the networks of dead speech.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  Perseus in theWind.

The Pressisatoncethe eyeand the earand thetongue of the people.It isthe visible speech, if not the voice, of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world.

-Stead,WilliamThomas
  'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist onJournalism (1892).

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Parts of aWorld,'Of Modern Poetry'.

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.

And Thought leapt out to wed withThought EreThought could wed itself with Speech.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 23, l.15^16.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be classics, now it's lyric verse.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  The Loved One, ch.9.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

-Wriston,Walter Bigelow
  Risk and Other Four-LetterWords.