Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 12

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, America

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• The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Speech, Democratic, Bases

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• Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Speech, Fundamentals, Humans

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

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  People, Majority, Found

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• The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

  Rob Kampia

  Firsts, First Amendment, Free Speech

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• The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Fundamentals, Nations, Speech

  "Rep. Markwayne Mullin defends "Duck Dynasty" star's speech rights" by Chris Casteel, newsok.com. December 19, 2013.

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• In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of speech, whether it is freedom of the press, whether it is freedom of association, all of the rights that are enshrined in the First Amendment are threatened by the active, aggressive homosexual lobby and the homosexual agenda.

  Bryan Fischer

  Rights, Liberty, Agendas

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Culture, Radio

  Source: portside.org

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• Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Sex, Children, Writing

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• Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Liberty, Guarantees

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses" by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

  Richard Jeni

  Yoga, Hypocrite, Yelling

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Opportunity, Evil, Justice

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

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• Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed... The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible the search for a new enlightenment.

  Norman Dorsen

  Education, Art, Truth

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Drunk, Tabloids

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Believe, Liberty

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Criticism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

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• Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

  Hugo Black

  Freedom, Writing, Mean

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• For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

  Gore Vidal

  Average, Liberty, Libertarian

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage

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• I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not say something. In my opinion there is a sort of limit to that freedom, but where that limit exactly lies is open for discussion. As soon as there is no longer any discussion possible, than it has reached its limits and therefore freedom of speech will no longer exist.

  G.W. Sok

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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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

  Liberty, Free Speech, 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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• Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Speech, Silent

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• 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.

  Hugo Black

  Responsibility, Government, People

  "Strangling the messenger" by Niall Stanage, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2006.

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• 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.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• 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.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

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

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Ideas, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.18, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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