It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser. — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'... — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech. — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to… — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists. — Louis J. Freeh Copy Share Image
“If the party was so great and benevolent, why should it be so frightened of dissent or free thinking? Yet, they punished… — Rudi Wobbe Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There are already laws prohibiting the promotion of hatred and we are now considering new laws to establish limits on the use… — Allan Rock Copy Share Image
I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“I believe in the power of words- be they for good or evil. I am a writer. Its power is all the… — Clarissa Cartharn Copy Share Image
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
“NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA. — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image