Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
“Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot. — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.' — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the… — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules,… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday.… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories.… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and… — Hillary Clinton 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
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
I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated. — James Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room. — Suzy Becker Copy Share Image
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“... 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
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image