Freedom Of Speech Quotes - Page 16

• Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Speech, Silent

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• We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

  Abba Kovner

  Freedom, Taken, Patriotic

  "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

  Hugo Black

  Freedom, Writing, Mean

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• Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Earning, Way

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.14, Granta Books

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• A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

  Reggie Evans

  Men, America, Want

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• The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

  Gerald Celente

  Greatest Fear, Government, Knowing

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• It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.

  Frank Hague

  Real, Men, Rights

  Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in "The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway" by Steven Hart, (p. 137), 2007.

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• Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial, Political, Want

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• Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, America, Special

  Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation, www.reaganlibrary.gov. January 11, 1989.

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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

  Liberty, Free Speech, Bedrock

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Giving, Justice

  "Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech". www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

  Jacques Barzun

  School, Reality, Cells

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• At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Freedom, War, Fighting

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.

  Howard Zinn

  Agency, Rights, Government

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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• The internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Wall, Freedom, Believe

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Country, Race, People

  "The Tool Man: Blistering Band's Frontman Puts His Mind to the World's Problems". The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 25, 2001.

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Fear, Past, Liberty

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

  Eric Idle

  America, News, Use

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2003.

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• Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.

  Mike Godwin

  Exercise, Technology, Rights

  Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Criticism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

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• For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

  Gore Vidal

  Average, Liberty, Libertarian

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage

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• Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

  Miroslav Volf

  Doe, Fundamentals, Humans

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Ignorance, Race, People

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Freedom, Hate, Attachment

  United States v. Schwimmer (dissenting opinion) (1929)

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