Comforting Quote by Colin Powell

Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies to offensive…

— Neil Macdonald

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

— Neal Boortz

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

— Amal Clooney

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…

— Mark Steyn

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

— Timothy Morton

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much…

— Glenn Greenwald

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump…

— Winston Churchill

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

— Mark Thomas

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

— Anonymous

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

— Salman Rushdie

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

— Larry Flynt

The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples,…

— Anonymous