FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Quote: If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Author: Noam Chomsky 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist
Quote: We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Nadine Gordimer 1923-, South African Author
Quote: 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. Author: Frank Hague
Quote: The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. Author: Grace (Patricia) Kelly 1929-82, American Actress and Princess of Monaco
Quote: 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. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader
Quote: At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. Author: Marshall Lumsden
Quote: Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. Author: Eleanor Holmes Norton
Quote: Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose. Author: Georgia O'Keeffe American painter
Quote: Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Author: Salman Rushdie 1948-, Indian-born British Author
Quote: The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician
Quote: The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician
Quote: 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. Author: Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher
Quote: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA