As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech,… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson 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
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image