Best Free Speech Quotes
214 Free Speech quotes by 169 unique authors
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Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.
— Ann Coulter
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When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant,…
— Ann Coulter
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There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or…
— Aldo Leopold
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental…
— Northrop Frye
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I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches…
— John Ashcroft
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We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment…
— Susan Brownmiller
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Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves…
— Ann Althouse
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We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life…
— George H. W. Bush
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Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
— Herbert Hoover
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The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
— Herbert Hoover
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Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its…
— Corliss Lamont
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What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
— John Hagee
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Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
— Herbert Hoover
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We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
— Peggy Noonan
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I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job…
— Jeff Dunham
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it,…
— Dana Carvey
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You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every…
— Herbert Hoover
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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the…
— Carl L. Becker
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These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that…
— Tipper Gore
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But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for…
— Mark Steyn
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Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of…
— Hugo Black
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You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a…
— Frank Hague
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The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers…
— Denise Caruso
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The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,…
— Unknown Author
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