Bill Maher Quotes

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

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

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

You may not like the expression of an opinion, but you can't stop it.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

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

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Everyone champions freedom of expression in the abstract but few can resist calling for censorship when they do not like what is being expressed.

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.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

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.

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

I love free speech.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.