198 Quotes About Free-speech

I've always been a great advocate of free speech. I think the more perspectives we hear, the better we'll understand how stupid we are.

I have an opinion and I'm not scared to use it.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

Saying the "right" things is always the "liked" thing.

Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.

The attempt [by the far-left] to boil down fascism to 'anything I don't like' is simply idiotic. Which is more fascist: Christina Hoff Sommers coming to speak about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force?That seems a little more fascist to me.

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

Right to speak comes with a duty to listen.