Free speech Quotes · Page 14

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

— Medea Benjamin

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime --…

— Barbara Walters

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

— Nat Hentoff

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can…

— Solon

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

— Salman Rushdie

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

— Robin Quivers

We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.

— Richard A. Clarke

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through…

— John Ashcroft

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That…

— Frank Hague

“A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, "Let's chase the bastard off!…

— John Hospers

I think our fans and NFL fans are very passionate about our country and our men and women who fight for our…

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of…

— Steve Scalise

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know…

— Snoop Dogg

Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech;…

— Gail Sheehy

If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you…

— Magic Johnson

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is…

— Nick Harkaway

“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing…

— Robert G Ingersoll

The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate…

— Dave Rodgers

“The volunteers merely dropped in for a summer, then went home to question America. Some would spearhead the events that defined the…

— Bruce Watson

“The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses,…

— Kim R. Holmes

I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always.…

— Bill Maher

“Rhadamanthus said, “We seem to you humans to be always going on about morality, although, to us, morality is merely the application…

— John C. Wright

I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.

— Stacey Abrams

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

— Alison Lurie

Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.

— S.E. Cupp

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.

— Dick Durbin

“the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.”

— william douglas

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

— Scott Westerfeld

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

— Barack Obama

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the…

— Gene Weingarten

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground

— Heywood C Broun

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

— Mark Twain

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

— DeRay Mckesson

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

— Salman Rushdie

You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech.

— Colby Covington

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

— William S. Burroughs