Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 11

• Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mean, Men, Political

  Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375, 1927.

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• The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

  Grace Kelly

  Memorable, Way, Journalism

  Attributed in "The Routledge dictionary of quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, (p. 209), 1987.

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• Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Together, Paper

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in this country and every American has got to stand up against any form of violence. That is unacceptable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Leader, Violence

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I've always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake and develop my own point of view. But the first thing you've got to do is you've got to let people speak and you've got to listen. And that's what the first amendment is all about. That's what really distinguishes this country from others.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Block, Views

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• Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

  Stanley Fish

  Goal, Academic, Accuracy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

  Benazir Bhutto

  America, Democracy, World

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Speech, Democratic, Bases

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• But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Speech, Fundamentals, Humans

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• When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  People, Majority, Found

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• We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Years, Democracy

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution, Mark, Freedom Of The Press

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• I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Speech

  "Maher calls efforts to pressure Rush Limbaugh's sponsors 'the system being manipulated'" by Jeff Poor, dailycaller.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Gun, Hunting

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.

  Gillian Anderson

  Doors, America, People

  "I'm not good at playing the game" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, America

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• In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

  George Orwell

  Country, Helpful, Propaganda

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

  Markwayne Mullin

  Fundamentals, Nations, Speech

  "Rep. Markwayne Mullin defends "Duck Dynasty" star's speech rights" by Chris Casteel, newsok.com. December 19, 2013.

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• There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

  Francois Hollande

  Freedom, Attachment, People

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• Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, People, World

  Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. December 23, 2011.

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• Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Country, Liberty, Moments

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• The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Errors, Mind, Liberty

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• but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Speech, Rhetoric

  Umberto Eco (2002). “Five Moral Pieces”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Opportunity, Evil, Justice

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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