Quotes About Speech

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.