Free Speech Quotes
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There is no danger is letting people have their say ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
— Tacitus
You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.
— Richard Pryor
Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'
— Richard Stallman
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!
— Ashwin Sanghi
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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.
— Greta Van Susteren
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.
— Scott Westerfeld
Question everything - ban nothing
— Mick Hume
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
— H.L. Mencken
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
— Noam Chomsky
If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?
— Michel Templet
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'.
— Richard Stallman
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
— Hank Johnson
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
— Winston Churchill
Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.
— Lindsey Graham
Free thought, free speech and a free press.
— Anne Royall
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'
— Russell Brand
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
— Brent Weeks
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.
— Dave Barry
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
— Mary Harris Jones
Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.
— Leviak B. Kelly
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
— Vladimir Lenin
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
— Lady Starlight
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
— David Mamet
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
— Herbert Hoover
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
— Thomas Jefferson
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
— Walter Lippmann
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition ... well, they are still radical ideas.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.
— Nick Cohen
Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
— Barney Frank
The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.
— Philip Sharp
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
— George Edward Woodberry
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ...
— Stephen Colbert
Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.
— Robert Glaser
Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.
— Andrew Rosenthal
We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity.
— Roger Scruton
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
— Marvin Ammori
Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind — Tupac Shakur
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
— Adrian Cronauer
Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
— Bryant McGill
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.
— John Battelle
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
— Laurence J. Peter
The only security of all is in a free press.
— Thomas Jefferson
Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them.
— Roger Scruton
None but the dead have free speech.
— Mark Twain
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
— Robin Quivers
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
— Daniel Delgado F.
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.
— Gene Weingarten
If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
— Noam Chomsky
I like something with 'vice' in it.
— Ted Turner
I detect the activist returning with a vengence.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
— George Orwell
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
— Emma Goldman
Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
— Steven Wright
There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.
— Michael Grunwald
The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
— John Perry Barlow
Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
— Marsha Blackburn
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press ... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
— Elliott Abrams
The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
— William Gibson
Redefine the possible.
— Stewart Brand
