Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

The principle of free speech [is] no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. [It is] a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

The Liberty of Conscience and of the Press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United States

The rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the right to advocate the destruction of the very government that protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

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

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Freedom of expression is freedom of information

We [Russia] and America both have freedom of speech. The only difference is that Americans have freedom after they speak.

I believe that the defendants had as much right to publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition—well, they are still radical ideas.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

The suppression of the Socialist press has actually been more rapid and efficient in this republic than it was in the German Empire after the declaration of war. And as for our celebrated Anglo-Saxon tradition of free speech—you can’t even collect your thoughts without getting arrested for unlawful assemblage!

If, then, we truly believe in the liberty of conscience, speech and press, we must place ourselves again squarely upon the declaration of rights made by our forefathers, and defend the right of others to disagree with us, even about the beneficence of government