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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
Marshall Lumsden
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
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert (speak out) upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes.
William Cullen Bryant, defending
We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner.
Frank Hague
The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
Junius, The Letters of Junius 'D
Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Colin Powell
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
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace (Patricia) Kelly
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
Woodrow Wilson, Speech, 1919
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Warren Earl Burger, Majority opi
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai Stevenson
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
