Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 4

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

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

I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.

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

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

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.

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

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

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

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

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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.

Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.