Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo Copy Share Image
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
I will never allow another individual to turn my voice into an echo, for I was not born to be censored! — Ruben Ledesma Copy Share Image
I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote,… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
College students overwhelmingly support free speech in the abstract, but when it comes to the real world, they are accepting of restrictions… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening.… — Mike Adams Copy Share Image
CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain… — Randall L. Stephenson Copy Share Image
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights,… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
“On January 21, 2010, the Court announced its 5–4 decision in the Citizens United case, overturning a century of restrictions banning corporations… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It is actually a policy issue relevant to the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. The First Amendment was… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
“We must insist that free oratory is only the beginning of free speech; it is not the end, but a means to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ... — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“... free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech? — Rob Kampia Copy Share Image
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“proof that free speech and the truth wrapped in a good joke will always be more persuasive and more powerful than identity… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
