Mark Twain Quotes About Free Speech

• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Baby

• The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

• Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Numbers, Four

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.442, Univ of California Press

• In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, America, Speech

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

• None but the dead have free speech.

  Mark Twain

  Speech, Free Speech

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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