Clear Quote by Louis D. Brandeis

What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the…

— Hugo Black

It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that…

— Yemi Osinbajo

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more…

— Anonymous

“threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

— Charles James Fox

Silence is safer than speech.

— Epictetus

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

— Emile M. Cioran

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.

— Sushma Swaraj

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

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

The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to prohibit speech…

— Kat Timpf