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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Freedom of speech
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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.

Samuel Johnson

Freedom of speech
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

Freedom of speech
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Freedom of speech
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Søren Kierkegaard

Freedom of speech
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Freedom of speech
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Freedom of speech
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

Freedom of speech
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom of speech
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Søren Kierkegaard

Freedom of speech
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom of speech
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Nadine Gordimer

Freedom of speech
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom of speech
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Freedom of speech
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

E. M. Forster

Freedom of speech
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Freedom of speech
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech

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

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.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.