474 Quotes About Freedom-of-speech

I love freedom of speech.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Their only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.