Joichi Ito Quotes

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

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

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

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.

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

We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.

Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that, you know.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

People have the right to say what they want to.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of 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.

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

Today I am here to defend the right to offend within the bounds of the law.

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

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] 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.

America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

This country is built on free speech.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.

It's OK to say whatever you want. It's a free country. And it's also OK for the rest of us to say 'We don't like what you're saying.' That's actually our job as members of Congress.

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.