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Quotes About Speech

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.
~ Joe Arpaio
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~ George Washington
It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.
~ A.E. Samaan
Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.
~ James Lankford
Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
~ Leslie Jones
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
~ Charles B. Rangel
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.
~ Bob Dylan
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest
~ Winston Churchill
Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
~ Charlton Heston
I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.
~ Don Rickles
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
~ H. L. Mencken
Being HUMBLE is much more important than being WISE! Because GOD doesn't need a PROUD mouth that SPEAKS much. But a KIND heart that LISTENS.
~ Unknown
Don't let anyone look down on you for being young. Instead make your speech, behaviour, love, faith, & purity an example.
~ Unknown
America symbolizes FREEDOM. Freedom of speech and Freedom to protest. Today we honor those that fought for our FREEDOM. Happy Veterans Day.
~ Unknown
Happy Veterans Day to those that fought for our FREEDOM! Our freedom of speech and our freedom to protest all inequalities and injustices.
~ Unknown
Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a crowd of people who don't want to hear you
~ William Shakespeare
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
~ Mark Twain
Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.
~ Unknown
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
~ Unknown
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
~ Unknown