Best Free Speech Quotes

#1. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

J.K. Rowling

#2. We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press ... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Elliott Abrams

#3. The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

Philip Sidney

#4. Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.

Denis Napthine

#5. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Jackson Katz

#6. Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

John C. McGinley

#7. Everybody has a different Internet.

Bruce Sterling

#8. No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

Maajid Nawaz

#9. He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally.
Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#10. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#11. I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Peggy Noonan

#12. You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#13. We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

Yishan Wong

#14. If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

#15. But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

Tony Hendra

#19. Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Denis Leary