Speech Limitations Quotes

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

Opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

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.