Freedom Of Speech Quotes

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

There is a time and a place for creativity.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.