“It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground — Heywood C Broun Copy Share Image
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech. — Colby Covington Copy Share Image
If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
“Journalists are being suffocated, silenced, even shot through bullet proof vests by governments who do not believe that freedom of speech is… — Aysha Taryam 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
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
Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would… — Alan Dershowitz 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
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
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
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.” — Wes Henricksen Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free… — Robert Frost 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
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can… — Solon 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
I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them. — Richard A. Clarke 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
“the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.” — william douglas Copy Share Image
