Free Speech Quotes
Free Speech Quote of the day
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.
The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
