Free speech Quotes
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Johnson, Samuel
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Milton, John
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Kierkegaard, Soren
Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech
Benjamin Franklin
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...
John Peter Altgeld
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the germs of disease, and bring new elements of health.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
