Ruthie Ann Miles Quotes

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

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

People have the right to say what they want to.

The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

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.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

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

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

Don’t let religious authorities decide what can or can't be published, …. free speech is vital for democracy, for social change, for the possibility of challenging what has been laid down by established authorities…. freedom only for those who do not offend, annoy, and irritate entrenched authorities - is no freedom at all.

Everyone has the right to express his thoughts, to express himself as he wants.

Better a thousandfold abuse of speech than a denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Free and open communications is the best guarantee of democracy.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant

If you have an open society that what happens—people say things and they criticize you.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of a civil society …. This will come.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.