A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
Letting our domestic sensitivities dictate our debate on China allows the CCP to avoid criticism where it richly deserves it, and it… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“an unlikely pair of guests: Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing UK Independence Party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in free speech. Common Sense's motto is sanity, not censorship. But I'm over the age of 18, and… — Jim Steyer Copy Share Image
As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes… — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly,… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I support Richard Spencer's right to say what he wants. He can be nasty about Jewish people, he has a right to… — Laura Loomer Copy Share Image
Our founding documents didn't just protect the right to bear arms: they were designed to protect all the principles upon which America… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Bopp had battered away at the foundation of modern campaign-finance law. He had succeeded in part by using the liberals’ language of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Christians have always dissented through history... and inevitably, when persecution of free speech comes it always comes against the people who have… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organization, are simply practical extensions of… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
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