Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe. — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.” — Sergey Grechishkin Copy Share Image
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. — Judy Gold 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
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse,… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to… — Pat Oliphant 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
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
“Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship… — China Miéville 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
“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
“For years, the family funded legal challenges to various campaign-finance laws. Ground zero in this fight was the James Madison Center for… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
In 1991, the latest year figures are available, most Americans, across all age groups, disapproved when asked the question: 'Everything considered, would… — Brock N. Meeks Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic. — Amal Clooney Copy Share Image
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the… — Aryeh Neier Copy Share Image
For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
There is a difference in 'free speech' and 'cheap talk.' The smallest size is to criticize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech. — Larry the Cable Guy 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
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I’m exercising my right to free speech, because it used to be obese. For years all it did was sit on the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers. — Mike Cernovich 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
