Fred Wilson Quotes

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

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

I love free speech.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

I let people say and write what they want.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

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?

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

People have the right to say what they want to.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

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

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

There should be no censorship of mail.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

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

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

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

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

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.