Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 5

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

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

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

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

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.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of speech, whether it is freedom of the press, whether it is freedom of association, all of the rights that are enshrined in the First Amendment are threatened by the active, aggressive homosexual lobby and the homosexual agenda.

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

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom of speech," and it literally is about political speech. You can say anything you want about politics, a candidate, and the government cannot stop you. And the Democrats hate that.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.