Tom Stoppard Quotes

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

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

There is no nation so poor that it cannot afford free speech.

We in the Netherlands have the right to demonstrate and the right to speak up if we don't agree with something.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

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

People have the right to say whatever they want.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

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

The right to dissent is one of the great and cherished freedoms that we enjoy by reason of the excellent accident of our American births.

… the Civil Liberties Union was defending the right of Abramovitch to lie without interruption or heckling.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect—freedom of thought and freedom of action.

If, then, we truly believe in the liberty of conscience, speech and press, we must place ourselves again squarely upon the declaration of rights made by our forefathers, and defend the right of others to disagree with us, even about the beneficence of government