Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 4

• As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.

  Mike Pence

  Real, Believe, Home

  Mike Pence's remarks at World Press Freedom Day, May 4, 2009.

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• Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

  Emily Robison

  Fall, Believe, People

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• There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Speech, Conservative, Ifs

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Jail

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Freedom, Equality

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, World, Firsts

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• The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Peace, Ubuntu, Rights

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• The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Issues, Independence

  Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 1967.

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• Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.

  Candice S. Miller

  America, Government, Media

  "Detroit Free Press Wins Pulitzer Prize". Candice S. Miller, "Congressional Record", Volume 155, Number 59, United States House of Representatives, Page H4588, www.gpo.gov. April 22, 2009.

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

  Anthony Kennedy

  Law, Criminals, Example

  "Excerpts From Opinions in Ruling on the Child Pornography Prevention Act". www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2002.

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• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Fear, Telling The Truth, Silent

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

  Eminem

  Funny, Thinking, Doors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Looks, Headlines, Careful

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Education, Time, Evil

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Use, Worship

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• The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  War, Hero, People

  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”

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• Exploring and understanding the Net is an ongoing process. Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society.

  Mike Godwin

  Fighting, Understanding, Cyberspace

  Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business

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• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

  Mike Godwin

  Trying, Firsts, Kind

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

  Neal Boortz

  Voting, Needs, Literature

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”, p.49, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

  James Madison

  People, Common, Legislature

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• Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Impact, Political

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

  Sam Farr

  Country, Democracy, United States

  "Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press". Speech in the House of Representatives, November 07, 1997.

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• In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

  Mike Godwin

  Knowing, Stronger, Principles

  Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business

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