Walter Lippmann Quotes

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

The most repressive societies have always restricted speech the most — and when people are finally able to speak, they often call for change.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

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?

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

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

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

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.

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.