Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech. — Colby Covington Copy Share Image
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors. — Karen Hughes Copy Share Image
“Don’t be surprised if I try to stab you with a club sandwich sword. I will defend your right to free speech… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree… — Edward Leigh Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. — Newton Lee Copy Share Image
You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're… — Fredrick Brennan Copy Share Image
Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is… — Tony Hendra Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We are strong supporters of First Amendment rights, and we believe free speech is a two-way street. While anyone is free to… — Ibrahim Hooper Copy Share Image
I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Rhadamanthus said, “We seem to you humans to be always going on about morality, although, to us, morality is merely the application… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
“A man may have the right to criticize the Government, but I'm hanged if he has a right to brazenly use his… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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