Right to Communicate Quotes

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

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

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

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

The United States may give up the Post Office when it sees fit, but while it carries it on, the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues.

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

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

Freedom of expression is freedom of information

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.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. ... the press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.