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Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
George Orwell
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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Voltaire
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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
Naomi Klein
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The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
William Gibson
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You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mother Jones
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What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
John Hagee
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There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
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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
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Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
Mark Thomas
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
H. G. Wells
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
H. L. Mencken
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The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.
Mike Godwin
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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
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Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
Russ Feingold
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales
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You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.
Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
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I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.
Newt Gingrich
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There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.
Dave Barry
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The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.
Richard Curtis
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Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Eric S. Raymond
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Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Winston Churchill
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The case for democracy is not esthetic.
George Will
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Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.
Robert Glaser
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Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.
Ted Alexandro
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In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.
T.R. Reid
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
Ted Turner
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When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.
John S. Dickerson
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None but the dead have free speech.
Mark Twain
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We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
Peggy Noonan
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie
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I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.
Larry the Cable Guy
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The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.
Rush Limbaugh
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We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.
Killer Mike
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It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.
Eliot Spitzer