Free speech quotes

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◆ Sometimes it's just easier to tell a stranger than to tell the people you are close to. The freedom of speech is my liberation from solitude and if you should take that negatively or with annoyance then that's on you to look the other way.

- Nicole Hill100

◆ Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

- Frank Serpico99

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

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan99

◆ The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

- Frederick Douglass99

◆ Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

- William O Douglas99

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

- Hubert H Humphrey99

◆ While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

- Ernest Istook99

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

- Charles Bradlaugh99

◆ Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

- Charles Bradlaugh99

◆ These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

- Tipper Gore99

◆ To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

- G K Chesterton99

◆ What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

- Henry Louis Mencken99

◆ The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.

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