Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

Everyone has the right to express his thoughts, to express himself as he wants.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

People have the right to say whatever they want.

People have a right to express themselves.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

I don't conjure up ways of denying people freedom. I don't sit around and examine what people do that I don't like and try to figure out ways to get them to stop it, unless we're talking about lawbreakers, of course. But I'm a freedom, liberty, live and let live kind of guy. I might not approve of or like what people do, but have at it.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.