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
“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is often the product of limits on free speech, education systems that promote bias and the practice of some leaders of… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
“I am: a critical voice in the pushback against political correctness, and a free-speech fundamentalist defending the public’s right to express themselves… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in free speech. Common Sense's motto is sanity, not censorship. But I'm over the age of 18, and… — Jim Steyer Copy Share Image
As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“an unlikely pair of guests: Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing UK Independence Party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Think Before You Speak, Words Have Power, People Are Pretty Careless With The Words They Choose. Especially When Speaking. Your Words Can… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to… — Louis J. Freeh Copy Share Image
In 2021 social media is how the world communicates, and the enforcement of arbitrary content guidelines imperil free speech. As censorship increases,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's warranted, meeting their free… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
