#free speech

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet. ↗

— John Doolittle

#american #bright #check #clean #clear

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#applaud #audience #butter #cattle #diseased

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#free #free speech #hearer #rights #speaker

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#blacks #christians #comedy #comic #elderly

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#desecration #flag #free #free speech #fundamental

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#believe #campuses #college #college campuses #controversial

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#free #free speech #i #privilege #should

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#free #free speech #meant #needs #popular

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' ↗

— Robin Quivers

#free speech #had #heard #jefferson #probably