Top Freedom Of Speech Quotes Collection

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Image of Sun Ra
Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
- Sun Ra
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Image of Ai Weiwei
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
- Ai Weiwei
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Image of Potter Stewart
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
- Potter Stewart
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Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
- Spiro T. Agnew
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Image of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Image of Joan Wallach Scott
Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.
- Joan Wallach Scott
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Image of Helen Gahagan Douglas
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
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Image of Hank Williams, Jr.
There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.
- Hank Williams, Jr.
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Image of Barney Rosset
If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.
- Barney Rosset
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Image of Robert Spencer
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.
- Robert Spencer
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Image of Stanley Forman Reed
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.
- Stanley Forman Reed
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Image of Roger Ebert
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
- Roger Ebert
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Image of Tiberius
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
- Tiberius
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Image of Rob Kampia
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?
- Rob Kampia
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Image of Larry Flynt
Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.
- Larry Flynt
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Image of Pankaj Mishra
Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Image of Mike Godwin
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
- Mike Godwin
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Image of Sunny Leone
There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.
- Sunny Leone
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Image of Herbert Schiller
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
- Herbert Schiller
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Image of Benjamin E. Sasse
The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.
- Benjamin E. Sasse
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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
- Naomi Klein
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Image of Ayn Rand
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Miroslav Volf
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.
- Miroslav Volf
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Image of Philip Pullman
No one has the right to live without being shocked.
- Philip Pullman
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Image of Peggy Noonan
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
- Peggy Noonan
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Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Image of Larry the Cable Guy
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.
- Larry the Cable Guy
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Image of Winston Churchill
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Eugene Mirman
I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?
- Eugene Mirman
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Image of George Carlin
They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.
- George Carlin
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Image of Geert Wilders
Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.
- Geert Wilders
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Image of George W. Bush
I love free speech.
- George W. Bush
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Image of Alan Dershowitz
I am attacked equally by the hard right and the hard left for expressing what they regard as politically incorrect views. I thrive on such controversy and welcome it. It only encourages me to speak out more. I have not been affected by attacks on me for defending freedom of speech and due process.
- Alan Dershowitz
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Image of Bob Dylan
Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Nadine Gordimer
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
- Nadine Gordimer
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Image of Joe Arpaio
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
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Neil Gaiman
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.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Anthony Horowitz
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
- Anthony Horowitz
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Image of Aung San Suu Kyi
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.
- Rush Limbaugh
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back
- Vladimir Lenin
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