Free Speech Quotes

214 quotes by 173 authors

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
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
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
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. — Neal Boortz
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh
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
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
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
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead. — Mark Twain
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone
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
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
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
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
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.
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde
You must stand for free speech in the streets. — Mother Jones
Free speech not only lives, it rocks! — Oprah Winfrey
Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie
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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