Judy Garland Quotes

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

If government were free to suppress disfavored speech by preventing potential speakers from being paid, there would not be much left of the 1st Amendment.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the 1st Amendment.

Who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson. who wrote that ... "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips ... a philosophical anarchist; nor [William] Seward of the Higher Law.... Not Lincoln ... or Wilson ... or Justice Holmes.

Every intellectual who is called before one of the committees ought to refuse to testify.

Our birthright under the 1st Amendment is to foster the voices of dissent.

The fact that people gather with placards is abnormal. Other countries would not allow that. Our democracy is in many cases excessive.

The rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the right to advocate the destruction of the very government that protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands..

Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech

If the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and press is to mean anything, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

Freedom of expression is very important.

It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

Players who take a knee during the national anthem do so to protest injustice across the country - fulfilling a patriotic duty to never accept injustice, but to call it out when we see it.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

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