Payal Rohatgi Quotes

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

People have the right to say what they want to.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

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

The government may not prohibit expression simply because it disagrees with its message.

Our birthright under the 1st Amendment is to foster the voices of dissent.

If the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and press is to mean anything, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

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.

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

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

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

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

People have a right to criticize.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Implicit in the history of the 1st Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.