#free speech

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. ↗

— Heywood Broun

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

— Larry Flynt

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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. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' ↗

— Robin Quivers

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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You must stand for free speech in the streets. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

— Salman Rushdie

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