Speech Freedom Quotes

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. It cannot be so easily discovered if you allow him to remain silent and look wise, but if you let him speak, the secret is out and the world knows that he is a fool. So it is by the exposure of folly that it is defeated; not by the seclusion of folly, and in this free air of free speech men get into that sort of communication with one another which constitutes the basis of all common achievement.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. But every voluntary association (including the party) is also free to expel members who use the name of the party to advocate anti-party views. Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view. The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.

I don't care what kind of speeches you make as long as you don't vote against the appropriations.

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

The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

If there is no absolute right to freedom of speech, why must there be an absolute right to the freedom to bear arms.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

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

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you like and to believe what you believe and to say what you want to say.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights.