Limitations on Speech Quotes

Freedom of expression and speech is guaranteed for everyone. However, the excessive use of this right … could represent a threat to social peace and the country’s best interest.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

No man, who is depending purely upon the words of the Constitution, will ever say that we have unabridged freedom of speech and press so long as there is any law which prescribes a penalty for the utterance of anyone's sentiments …

Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

As an active privilege, it [freedom of speech] ranks with the privilege of committing murder; we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences.