Free speech Quotes · Page 11

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

— Winston Churchill

“You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.”

— Richard Pryor

There is a Constitutional right of expression in speech any opinion good or bad only reveals the words are unique.

— Denise Clark

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

— Lady Starlight

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

— Alfred M. Gray

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

— Nat Hentoff

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech…

— Ron Davies

The first amendment is freedom of speech of what you believe in, if you speak something its your right to say what…

— Jenny The Jawbreaker

Remember that free speech is about the government can't infringe on your free-speech right. It says nothing about an employer - and…

— Cris Collinsworth

The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people…

— John Seabrook

“Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so…

— Jeffrey A. Miller

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is…

— Winston Churchill

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and…

— Corliss Lamont

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job…

— Michael Barone

I go to sleep knowing what you seek. Always returning to that place that seemed so sweet. You perpetual target that cannot…

— Karina Escobar

“Permissiveness cannot sustain true liberty for long. . . . In Sodom they probably had absolute free speech, but nothing worth saying!…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,…

— Lawrence Lessig

I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem…

— Bruce Sterling

“Calling the Internet a public forum is done to invoke a conceptualization of the Internet in which all expression is seen as…

— Bailey Poland

“2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate…

— Thom Hartmann

“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an…

— Ken Wilber

“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting…

— James William Steven Parker

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

— Medea Benjamin

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime --…

— Barbara Walters

Don't judge my character or assume anything about me. If you don't want to shake my hand and get to know me.

— Sabs Kridrec

“Time and again we see the same trend: the more victims one defrauds, the more likely the liar will avoid legal repercussions.”

— Wes Henricksen

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

'To Speak' we don't have to Pay anything other than the 'ability to Speak', but we have to 'Pay Heavily for what…

— Santanu Mishra

“Those who speak to the public can spread self-serving falsehoods, regardless of the harm caused, as long as they spread them to…

— Wes Henricksen

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these…

— Barack Obama

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture…

— Anonymous

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

— Mike Godwin

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

— Ted Alexandro

Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

— David Porush

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

— Deborah K. Ross

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me…

— Joey Barton

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

— Rick Ungar