Free Speech Quotes - Page 2

• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Fear, Men, Religion

  "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  Abba Kovner

  Freedom, Taken, Patriotic

  "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Freedom Of Speech, Together

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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

  Abbie Hoffman

  Freedom, Mean, Technology

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• Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

  John Doolittle

  Opportunity, Lines, Speech

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• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

  William O. Douglas

  Yesterday, History, Democracy

  "Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown, 354 U.S. 436". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

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• Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

  Hugo Black

  Government, Criticism, Sanctuary

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• The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom Of Speech, Society, Principles

  The New York Times, January 19, 1962.

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• The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Fire, Liberty

  Schenck v. United States (1919).

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• Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

  William O. Douglas

  Teaching, Rights In America, Political Revolution

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

  Anna Quindlen

  Ignorant, Speech, Reason Why

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• Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Freedom, Patriotic

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.28, MarcoPolo

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• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

  Hugo Black

  Friendship, Enemy, Speech

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

  Neal Boortz

  Voting, Freedom Of Speech, Needs

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

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• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Strange

  "On Liberty". Book by John Stuart Mill, 1859.

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• Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Freedom Of Speech, Abuse, Censorship In Books

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Ends

  President Barack Obama's remarks to the People of Estonia at the Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 3, 2014.

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• Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Government, Support

  "On Freedom of Speech and the Press". Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Gazette, November 17, 1737.

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  If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, Philosophy, Differences

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Speech, Doe

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

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• The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Motivational, Life And Love, Freedom

  Speech to National Student Association at Madison, 23 Aug. 1965, in New York Times 24 Aug. 1965, p. 12

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

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Freedom Of Speech, Liberty, Bedrock

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Loyalty, Country, Freedom

  "Schaefer v. United States, 251 U.S. 466". Dissenting opinion, 1920.

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• We shouldn't have free speech.

  Robin Quivers

  Speech

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