Free Speech Quotes

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

On peut rire de tout mais pas avec n'importe qui.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.

Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.

Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.