Vladimir Lenin Quotes

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

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.

If, then, we truly believe in the liberty of conscience, speech and press, we must place ourselves again squarely upon the declaration of rights made by our forefathers, and defend the right of others to disagree with us, even about the beneficence of government

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

Freedom of expression is very important.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

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

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Printers are educated in the Belief that when Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter. Hence they cheerfully serve all contending Writers that pay them well, without regarding on which side they are of the Question in Dispute... .It is likewise as unreasonable what some assert, That Printers ought not to print anything but what they approve, since if all of that Business should make such a Resolution, and abide by it, an End would thereby be put to Free Writing, and the World would afterwards have nothing to read but what happen'd to be the Opinions of Printers.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

Freedom of expression is freedom of information

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free—which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery.