Quotes of: Speech Keyword

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Tim Fargo

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Michel Templet

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Alan Dershowitz

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Frank Murphy

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Mortimer

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

David Frum

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

John Leo

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

Sam Harris

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

Tommy Smothers

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Five Speeches to P.E.N. Clubs and a Letter

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

Burr

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

Jimmy Wales

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

Patrick Chappatte