Communication Quote by John Peter Altgeld

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of…

— Frederick Douglass

“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of…

— Frederick Douglass

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press,…

— James Madison

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The…

— Anthony M. Kennedy

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy…

— Sam Farr

In our Constitution, it is said that we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. In my mind, unless that freedom is total,…

— Akshaye Khanna

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding the truth…

— 1st Viscount Southwood Julius Elias

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

— John Bagnell Bury

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

— Will Muschamp