Consequence Quote by George Washington

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

— George Washington

“When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who…

— Confucius

“It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument,…

— William Godwin

“For what sane man would freely make statements which, if accepted at face value, would consign him to the gallows?”

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and…

— Wendell Berry

“You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent…

— Thomas More

“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.”

— John Bagnell Bury

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are men, all subject to errors. Our opinions are not in our power. They are formed and governed much by circumstances that are…

— Davidson Butler

“For men do harm either out of fear or out of hatred.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli