Zechariah Chafee Jr. Quotes

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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.

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

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

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

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

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

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

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

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

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

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

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

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

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

I hate censorship, man. I really do.