William Shakespeare Quotes

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

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

Compelled speech isn't worth much.

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme", not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

Good men died for our right to say whatever we want to say and use whatever words we want to use.

Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views, even views that we profoundly disagree with. We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

Free speech is life itself.

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

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

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.