Better Quote by Ted Lieu

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech…

— John Paul Stevens

Government censorship of speech with which it disagrees not only violates the First Amendment, but is antithetical to the American system, which posits that…

— Bill Hagerty

I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not say something.…

— G.W. Sok

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

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to…

— Alan Dershowitz

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

— Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions…

— Benjamin Carson

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

— will.i.am

Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.

— William Orville Douglas

I think it's absolutely undeniable that nobody really advocates for complete total speech without any consequence or absolute freedom of expression. There's a line…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden