Communication Quote by Anthony Kennedy

If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected…

— Ronald L. Buckwalter

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to…

— Alan Dershowitz

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established…

— Laura Sydell

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

— Cliff Stearns

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

— Frederick Douglass

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. .…

— Howard Zinn

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions and legislation,…

— Noam Chomsky

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

— Colin Powell

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than any other…

— Noam Chomsky

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

— Anthony Kennedy