Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashleigh Brilliant

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Ai Weiwei

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Ai Weiwei

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Bob Dylan

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Ayn Rand

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

Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Bernie Sanders

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.