Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 7

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

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

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

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

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in this country and every American has got to stand up against any form of violence. That is unacceptable.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

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

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.