474 Quotes About Freedom-of-speech

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment which really was the first time - and I started studying .And we had a meeting a month later and I said, "We're gonna get rid of the Johnson Amendment because they're stopping you and our great people from talking."

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.