Quotes About Speech

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.