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Free Speech Quotes

1.
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
George Orwell

Authors on Free Speech Quotes: Salman Rushdie Killer Mike Rush Limbaugh Ayaan Hirsi Ali George Orwell Voltaire Peggy Noonan Mike Godwin Nelson Mandela Rachel Martin Jimmy Wales Russ Feingold William Gibson George Santayana Richard Curtis Eliot Spitzer Mother Jones Newt Gingrich Ralph E. Reed, Jr. John Hagee H. G. Wells William Hazlitt George Will Robert Glaser Eric S. Raymond Michael Grunwald Margaret Cho Ted Alexandro John Perry Barlow H. L. Mencken Winston Churchill Mark Thomas Robin Quivers
2.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Voltaire

3.
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
Naomi Klein

4.
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
Vladimir Lenin

5.
The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
William Gibson

6.
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mother Jones

7.
What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
John Hagee

8.
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

9.
Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed
Rachel Martin

10.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt

11.
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

12.
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
George Edward Woodberry

13.
Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
Mark Thomas

14.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana

15.
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

16.
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
H. L. Mencken

17.
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.
Mike Godwin

18.
Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie

19.
Redefine the possible.
Stewart Brand

20.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela

21.
We shouldn't have free speech.
Robin Quivers

22.
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

23.
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
Russ Feingold

24.
The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
John Perry Barlow

25.
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales

26.
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

27.
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.

28.
There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.
Dave Barry

29.
There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.
Michael Grunwald

30.
The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.
Rush Limbaugh

31.
We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.
Killer Mike

32.
It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.
Eliot Spitzer

33.
The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.
Richard Curtis

34.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Eric S. Raymond

35.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Winston Churchill

36.
The case for democracy is not esthetic.
George Will

37.
Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.
Robert Glaser

38.
Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.
Ted Alexandro

39.
I definitely support free speech.
Margaret Cho

40.
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

41.
Everybody has a different Internet.
Bruce Sterling

42.
I like something with 'vice' in it.
Ted Turner

43.
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

44.
None but the dead have free speech.
Mark Twain

45.
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
Peggy Noonan

46.
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie

47.
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.
Larry the Cable Guy

48.
We no longer have roots, we have aerials.
McKenzie Wark