Stan Van Gundy Quotes

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People have the right to say what they want to.

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.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

You may not like the expression of an opinion, but you can't stop it.

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

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.