There is a difference in 'free speech' and 'cheap talk.' The smallest size is to criticize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic. — Amal Clooney Copy Share Image
I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments. — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies… — Neil Macdonald 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
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry 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
“For years, the family funded legal challenges to various campaign-finance laws. Ground zero in this fight was the James Madison Center for… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe… — Newt Gingrich 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
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
None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that,… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well… — Salman Rushdie 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
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the… — H. L. Mencken 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
“In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses. Now, when one demands… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Hitler and Mussolini were indeed authoritarians, but it doesn’t follow that authoritarianism equals fascism or Nazism. Lenin and Stalin were authoritarian, but… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image