474 Quotes About Freedom-of-speech


  • Author Ron Paul
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    We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

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  • Author Ayn Rand
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    The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

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  • Author Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

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  • Author Marco Rubio
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    I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

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  • Author Salman Rushdie
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    It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

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  • Author Salman Rushdie
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    You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

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