Best Free Speech Words
214 Free Speech quotes by 169 unique authors
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Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed
— Rachel Martin
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is…
— Tony Hendra
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During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free…
— H. L. Mencken
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The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of…
— Bill Vaughan
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Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not…
— John Doolittle
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same…
— William O. Douglas
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
— Frederick Douglass
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
— Larry Flynt
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a…
— Larry Flynt
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
— Abbie Hoffman
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
— Bell Hooks
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed…
— Herbert Hoover
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
— Jack Kevorkian
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians…
— Denis Leary
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Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
— Rush Limbaugh
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
— Anna Quindlen
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