To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral. — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech Copy Share Image
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Right isn't violent; the Left is. By allowing these sociopaths to shut down free speech with violence, you are all but… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech as I define it is more than a right granted by government. It's a process that each of us… — T.J. Kirk 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
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“Lynum had plenty of information to share. The FBI's files on Mario Savio, the brilliant philosophy student who was the spokesman for… — Seth Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into… — Emma Goldman 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
I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint. — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That Shameful Moment When You Are Yelling At Someone And You Messed Up A Word... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I Am Responsible For What I Spoke, But Not For What You Understood... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. — Anonymous Copy Share Image