198 Quotes About Free-speech

Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The only security of all is in a free press.

The claim "hate speech is not free speech" implies "free" is a type of speech, as opposed to how speech is treated in a free society.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.