#freedom of speech

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#bad #broad #courts #facts #forth

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#begin #citizen #feel #first #first amendment

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag. ↗

— Larry Craig

#amendment #away #clear #congress #cut

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. ↗

— David Icke

#another #closed #demand #down #freedom

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

— Jimmy Wales

#advocate #big #expression #freedom of expression #freedom of speech

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. ↗

— Brad Thor

#another #equaled #freedom #freedom of speech #i

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. ↗

— Luke Scott

#agree #amendment #another #around #character

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. ↗

— William Hague

#bill of rights #freedom #freedom of speech #freely #intended

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. ↗

— Herodotus

#alone #clear #equality #freedom #freedom of speech

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department