Free-speech Quotes

The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of free...

It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever...

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no differ...

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutio...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my...

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could s...

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principl...

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be...

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudice...

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as ...

Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing some...

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever rea...

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your...

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of ...

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I w...

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down...

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversi...

If we suggest that it is okay to make fun of everything except certain aspects of Islam because Musl...

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal m...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.