Patrick Chappatte Quotes

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

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.

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.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

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

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Freedom of speech is as good as sex.

If you give most people the choice between food and the other necessities of life and Freedom of Speech, few will fight for Freedom of Speech.

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.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

People have the right to say what they want to.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

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

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

[E]rroneous statement … must be protected if the freedoms of expression are to be given the breathing space that they need ... to survive.

The Constitution does not allow the unnecessary trammeling of free expression, even for the noblest of purposes.

We do not debar Congress from all action upon the freedom of speech. Legislation that abridges that freedom is forbidden, but not legislation to enlarge and enrich it

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

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.