Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words. — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo Copy Share Image
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of… — Thomas Sowell 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
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
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
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
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
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
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“On January 21, 2010, the Court announced its 5–4 decision in the Citizens United case, overturning a century of restrictions banning corporations… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Protections of free speech are what makes inclusion and diversity possible. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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