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Free Speech Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
- 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…
- 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…
- The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
- 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…
More Free Speech Quotes
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — 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… — John Adams
- The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — 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… — 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… — Drew Carey
- Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in… — 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… — 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… — William O. Douglas