Penn Jillette Quotes

The Supreme Court has equated money with free speech.

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

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.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

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

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

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.

The marketing department of any given publishing house has far more power over free expression in America than any government office.

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

The First Amendment is national in scope and, as the Supreme Court said in Tinker, it does not stop at the schoolhouse door. Not all children are the same. Is a 17-year-old on the eve of his 18th birthday the same as a five-year-old? It is not the responsibility of librarians, or online content providers for that matter, to determine what is appropriate.

While the Executive may exclude an alien for almost any reason, it cannot do so solely because the Executive disagrees with the contents of the alien’s speech and therefore wants to prevent the alien from sharing this speech with a willing American audience.

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.

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.