“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.” — Wes Henricksen Copy Share Image
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Judges are either partial to the Constitution or they aren't; they either believe that the document is perfect in its form and… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way… The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in… — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
“Dissent from liberal orthodoxy is cast as racism, misogyny, bigotry, phobia, and, as we’ve seen, even violence. If you criticize the lack… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech,… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“About these developments George Orwell , in Nineteen Eighty-Four , was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
“[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech… — Chris Coons Copy Share Image
Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech… — Ron Davies Copy Share Image
The first amendment is freedom of speech of what you believe in, if you speak something its your right to say what… — Jenny The Jawbreaker Copy Share Image
The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to… — Pat Oliphant Copy Share Image
I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or… — James Agee Copy Share Image
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights… — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image