Quotes About Speech

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?