Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens 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
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
“The most hilarious thing about people holding up their right to free speech is how much it weakens everything else they've said.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
When you read the Oath of Office, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, we should be supportive… — Ron Rivera Copy Share Image
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
I always knew it'd be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is… — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
There's public health risks to doing large political gatherings, but in this country - and we do still live in America -… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
The alt-right is working hard to cloak its desire to create chaos in the streets as free speech. They say they want… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech… — Chris Coons Copy Share Image
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their… — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs. — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
![“[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.” quote by Kevin Spacey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bab/kevin-spacey-931_actors_washington-dc-feels-like-you-re-watching_99635.jpg)
![“There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.” quote by Rachel Maddow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/adb/rachel-maddow-1240_adventure_there-is-no-news-value-to-the-content-of_1724359.jpg)
