Right to Express Ideas Quotes

People have a right to express themselves.

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

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

People have the right to say whatever they want.

Each person can think what they want.

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

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

Men must also be allowed the publication of their opinions, if this be done with decency and seriousness, for the learned can have no right to say that they are in possession of the truth, still less can the unlearned, unless every grave man can offer his opinions, be they what they may…

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

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

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

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.