As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one. . . is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.
I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.
Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.
The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.
Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.