Free speech sayings

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◆ Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.

- Ayjee Grogan99

◆ What's freedom without free land, What's life without free will. What is a body without a soul.

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◆ All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

- Northrop Frye99

◆ I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.

- Jon Stewart99

◆ Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

- Bob Marley99

◆ If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

- Jay Sekulow99

◆ What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

- Hansell B Duckett99

◆ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

- Abbie Hoffman99

◆ To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

- Loretta Swit99

◆ Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

- Lucy Stone99

◆ There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

- Cliff Stearns99