Best Free Speech Lines
214 Free Speech quotes by 169 unique authors
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If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
— Robin Quivers
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
— Salman Rushdie
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
— Salman Rushdie
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
— Salman Rushdie
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
— Salman Rushdie
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One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
— Dan Savage
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Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
— Frank Serpico
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You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear…
— Donna Shalala
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do…
— Thomas Sowell
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
— Jimmy Wales
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
— Earl Warren
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
— Fred Wilson
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Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
— George Edward Woodberry
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult…
— Liu Xiaobo
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You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to…
— Julian Baggini
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are…
— Winston Churchill
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the…
— Ayn Rand
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Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of…
— Barack Obama
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I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech,…
— Peggy Noonan
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My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any…
— H. L. Mencken
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