Ilana Mercer Quotes

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

... to teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every form of government...to teach the duty of government, to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Freedom of speech is freedom to offend.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Make no mistake. Without individual property, none are free.

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

Property is proper to man.

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.

I don't think people know what freedom of expression really means.

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.

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

I definitely support free speech.

Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!