Quotes About Speech

The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.

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The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens. We

odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens. We believe that we have checks and balances, but have rarely faced a situation like the present: when the less popular of the two parties controls every lever of power at the federal level, as well as the majority of statehouses.

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

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

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

It's great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

And I think when you're an elected official, rightly so, you should watch what you say.

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

It's OK to say whatever you want. It's a free country. And it's also OK for the rest of us to say 'We don't like what you're saying.' That's actually our job as members of Congress.

One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

There's only one thing more embarrassing than the celebrities talking about politics; and that's politicians talking about anything other than politics.

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

The pen is mightier than the paving-stone

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.