Free Speech Quotes
214 quotes by 173 authors
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now…
— John Adams
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the…
— Hugo Black
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
— Charles Bradlaugh
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that…
— Drew Carey
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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then…
— Adam Michnik
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
— Paula Poundstone
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Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
— William O. Douglas
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
— Henry Hyde
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You must stand for free speech in the streets.
— Mother Jones
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Free speech not only lives, it rocks!
— Oprah Winfrey
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Free speech is life itself.
— Salman Rushdie
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public…
— William J. Brennan
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