Free Speech Quotes

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.

I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

I love free speech.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

I definitely support free speech.

None but the dead have free speech.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

Everybody has a different Internet.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.