Voltaire Quotes

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

Freedom of expression is freedom of information

With the right of free speech goes the right of free silence.

Performance artists in a free society have the right to do the most extraordinary and bizarre things. That’s called ‘Freedom of Speech.’

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect—freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the right to advocate the destruction of the very government that protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.

Good men died for our right to say whatever we want to say and use whatever words we want to use.

It's my right to write on what I feel about certain incidents, and it's your choice whether to read it or not.

People have the right to say what they want to.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.