It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. — Bertrand Russell 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
Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him. — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices. — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished. — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
Words are meaningless; sugarcoat nothing. Save your words; make them count. Let your words be as a hammer of truth, such that… — Josh Q Copy Share Image
People need to buy and want to. The selling itself becomes the entertainment, the sought-after good... In the Internet world there won't… — Peter W. Huber Copy Share Image
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Asking a question whose echo has been heard each time America went to war since, Goldman said, “How else is the world… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Journalists are being suffocated, silenced, even shot through bullet proof vests by governments who do not believe that freedom of speech is… — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
“I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas 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
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“About these developments George Orwell , in Nineteen Eighty-Four , was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech,… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Dissent from liberal orthodoxy is cast as racism, misogyny, bigotry, phobia, and, as we’ve seen, even violence. If you criticize the lack… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll 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
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Protections of free speech are what makes inclusion and diversity possible. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
