Best Free Speech Sayings
214 Free Speech quotes by 169 unique authors
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Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
— Charles Bradlaugh
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But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other…
— Christopher Dodd
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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
— Philip Sidney
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The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
— Michael Shermer
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If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
— Jay Sekulow
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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
— Colin Powell
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
— H. L. Mencken
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Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ...
— Stephen Colbert
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
— Ai Weiwei
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I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up…
— Mario Savio
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However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.
— Ed Koch
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People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt…
— Michael Copps
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You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.
— Rick Ungar
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While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.
— Ernest Istook
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Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich…
— Warren Rudman
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Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.
— Unknown Author
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
— Abbie Hoffman
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There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed…
— Frances Farenthold
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I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts…
— H. L. Mencken
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The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its…
— Winston Churchill
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Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in…
— Richard Stallman
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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the…
— Joe Randazzo
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