Audience Quote by William O. Douglas

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the…

— William O. Douglas

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

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

The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive.…

— Bret Stephens

“Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept…

— Karen Traviss

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

— Abbie Hoffman

“Repeatedly courts turned to the First Amendment. The right to speak is fundamental, but is limited or regulated under myriad circumstances. You are not…

— Michael Waldman

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

— Timothy Morton

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

— Colin Powell

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

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. .…

— Howard Zinn