Amal Clooney Quotes

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

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

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

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

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.

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

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

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

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

We had a responsibility to represent all people whose 1st Amendment rights were at risk

[E]rroneous statement … must be protected if the freedoms of expression are to be given the breathing space that they need ... to survive.

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

Freedom of speech cannot be rationed; it is a single entity that belongs to all.

The Constitution does not allow the unnecessary trammeling of free expression, even for the noblest of purposes.

If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights.

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.

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

Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.