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
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.” — william douglas 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
Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Six feet under with no marker Keep my name from your mouth forever. Free speech for the living, dead men tell no… — Lamb Of God Copy Share Image
In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“Asking a question whose echo has been heard each time America went to war since, Goldman said, “How else is the world… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Pastor Ted and other evangelical pastors I hear about in the media seem to perceive just about everything to be a threat… — Hemant Mehta Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter for abuse. I don't think anyone's gotten on Twitter so that they can be abused, but people do… — Anika Noni Rose Copy Share Image
When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech? — Rob Kampia Copy Share Image
I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“... free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“proof that free speech and the truth wrapped in a good joke will always be more persuasive and more powerful than identity… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I will never allow another individual to turn my voice into an echo, for I was not born to be censored! — Ruben Ledesma Copy Share Image
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
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