Free Speech Quotes
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.
We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.