It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Shutting down conservatives has become de rigueur. But now anti-free-speech activists are increasingly turning their ire on free-thinking progressives. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position. — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
That Shameful Moment When You Are Yelling At Someone And You Messed Up A Word... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The Moment Of Shame When You Say Something And Then Realise That It Made No Sense... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. — Shawn Amos 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
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
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
It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S…It's hard to reconcile this… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords… — Noam Chomsky 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
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black 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
“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“I believe in the power of words- be they for good or evil. I am a writer. Its power is all the… — Clarissa Cartharn Copy Share Image
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
“NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level. — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech. — Matt Welch Copy Share Image
If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free… — Matthew Simpson 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
I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
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![“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." [ The One Un-American Act , Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]” quote by William O. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ab/william-o-douglas-2931_democracy_restriction-of-free-thought-and-free-spe_550325.jpg)
![“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade,"…” quote by Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b18/lawrence-lessig-3201_communication_that-tradition-is-the-way-our-culture-ge_1808381.jpg)
![“We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes…” quote by Phil Donahue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cd/phil-donahue-11688_allegiance_we-in-usa-have-people-honestly-believing_2634330.jpg)
