Claims Quote by Thomas Sowell

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

— Salman Rushdie

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they…

— Winston Churchill

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

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

— Salman Rushdie

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the…

— Salman Rushdie

“Freedom of speech as I define it is more than a right granted by government. It's a process that each of us must believe…

— T.J. Kirk

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

— Amy Klobuchar

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 one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for…

— Ricky Gervais

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is…

— Salman Rushdie

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

— Gore Vidal