Charles Kingsley Quotes

The most repressive societies have always restricted speech the most — and when people are finally able to speak, they often call for change.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to prohibit the propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency.

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the press, by the pen, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert upon all political institutions ... [is] a right as clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without is we must fall at once into despotism and anarchy.

Freedom of speech only exists in proportion to indifference to the thing spoken of.

Israel and America are the only two grievances which may be freely expressed in Arab counties.

The will of the people... is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object

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.

Politically, the surest way to ward off authoritarianism is to safeguard the public expression of diverse opinion and the democratic interactions that result.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted in the bedrock principle of freedom, including the right to free expression.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.