Michelle Malkin Quotes

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 went after unnaturalized immigrants as well as opposition newspaper editors.

Our political life is closed, and our freedoms usurped, and our people are oppressed, and fearful… if you don’t say what the ruler wants, you’re exiled beyond the sun.

Civic murder … This free republic has killed five men for their opinions.

It is a crime now in my country to talk about the government's crimes.

The suppression of the Socialist press has actually been more rapid and efficient in this republic than it was in the German Empire after the declaration of war. And as for our celebrated Anglo-Saxon tradition of free speech—you can’t even collect your thoughts without getting arrested for unlawful assemblage!

… to gag us from speaking truth, and discovering the tyrannies of bad men.

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

… in many countries scholars are being sent into exile for racial, religious and political reasons, in increasing numbers .... It means that more and more people are growing afraid to face differences of opinion and yet it is increasingly important that throughout the world differing opinions should be listened to and weighed by the people as a whole.

During Wilson’s presidency, he followed through on an expansive view of Presidential power, suppressing domestic dissent and subversion in a manner that exceeded Dick Cheney’s wildest dreams.

The surest way to make our youth suspect that there may be something in Communism would be for the government to outlaw it.

There will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical comment.

Governments whose authority is ebbing have been increasingly brazen in their attempts to silence critics.

Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

The First Amendment does not extend to corporations. It's a U.S. government thing. Companies can shut speech down all they want. But the thing is this is destructive. This is discriminatory. And what they're telling themselves is they're making a much more peaceful environment. "We are creating a much more conducive and productive and peaceful environment," when they're not. They're suppressing opinion. They are inflicting their own world view and demanding that it be agreed with and acceded to. And if it's not, you get fired.