Matt Salmon Quotes

In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

The country don’t need no legislation

You ought not in a free country to lay a tax on the expression of political opinion.

Democracy in America is more than a two minute sound byte.

The protest is part of the American way of life.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. ... And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution.

Be it bumper stickers on your car, yard signs on your lawn, a letter to your local newspaper or member of Congress, the Internet or a voluntary contribution of your own hard earned money to candidates or party of your choosing, these are all constitutionally protected means of participation in our democracy.

Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.

What I do is good for Russian opposition. What I do is I speak freely on the things and items that were never discussed loudly with Russian public for years.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.