Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. — Alfred M. Gray Copy Share Image
I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties. — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie 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
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo 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
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights… — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image
There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented… — Kat Timpf 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 M. Kennedy 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
Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“The reason that certain tender subjects are avoided and forbidden in all other clubs is because those clubs consist of more than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we… — Douglas Valentine Copy Share Image
“Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like. — Deborah K. Ross Copy Share Image
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the… — Orhan Pamuk 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 a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b93/nat-hentoff-1615_association_after-bill-shawn-was-fired-i-was-going-t_2185565.jpg)
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