Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. — William James 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
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
To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The MAN above me has been LOYAL to me all my LIFE:!) Give him my SPEECHES, the answer RETURNED at any given… — Tee Shepard Copy Share Image
“You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.” — Richard Pryor 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
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all… — Northrop Frye 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
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and… — Spiro T. Agnew 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
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's warranted, meeting their free… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
In 2021 social media is how the world communicates, and the enforcement of arbitrary content guidelines imperil free speech. As censorship increases,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or… — Michael Copps Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Greeks and Romans were anti-Mediterranean cultures, in the sense of being at odds with much of the political heritages of Persia, Egypt, and… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“the dull old facts of altered climate, vanishing forests, creatures and polar ice. Profitable and poisonous agriculture obliterating biological beauty. Oceans turning… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The tendency to want what has been banned and therefore to presume that it is more worthwhile is not limited to such… — Robert B. Cialdini Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
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