Best Freedom Of Speech Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“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.”

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Author:Zechariah Chafee

“Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god: Freedom, the Holiest of Holies. Yes it bloody well is. It is absolutely sacred and inviolable, beyond any negotiation or compromise, now and forever. Amen.”

Wells Forever Identity Holy Speech Aspect Sacred Compromise Freedom Of Speech Bloody Negotiation Freedom Of Thought Amen Trinity Holy Trinity

Author:Pat Condell

“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”

America Land Speech Including Freedom Of Speech Right Time

Author:Beverly LaHaye

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

Should Violence Speech Threat Excuse Justification Freedom Of Speech Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Alan Dershowitz

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

Should Violence Speech Justification Freedom Of Speech Offended

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.”

Law Lying Speech Ultimate Permit Freedom Of Speech Agnostic Skeptical Ultimate Truth Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“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.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.”

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Author:Zooey Deschanel

“But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.”

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Book:Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom

Source: Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom

“What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.”

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

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Author:George Washington

“Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

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

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Author:Ai Weiwei

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

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Author:Shappi Khorsandi

“Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.”

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Book:The Journalist And The Murderer

Source: The Journalist And The Murderer

“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.”

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Author:Roxane Gay

“The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.”

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Author:Lucien Bourjeily

“A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.”

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Author:Reggie Evans

“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”

Source: Welcome to My World

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

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Author:Tom Scholz

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

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Book:Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

Source: Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

“We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“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.”

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Author:John Howard Lawson

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

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Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

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

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Author:Julian Assange

“While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp”

Might Speech Freedom Of Speech Swamps

Author:Bob Dylan

“Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.”

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Author:Anthony Horowitz

“When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.”

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Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“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].”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

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

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Book:Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Source: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

“Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.”

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Author:Joanna Lumley

“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”

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Author:Eminem

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

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Book:Other Colours

Source: Other Colours

“The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.”

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Author:William O. Douglas

“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

“Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.”

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Author:George Pataki

“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.”

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.”

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Author:William O. Douglas

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”

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Book:Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

“Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.”

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Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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