William Shenstone Quotes

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'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

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

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

The greatest single blessing enjoyed by the people of these United States is the right of conscience -- the right to think, and to say and write what one thinks. I admit of no limitation of that right.

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

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

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

We have the right to be idiots.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

People have the right to say whatever they want.

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

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of the dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

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.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

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.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.