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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

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

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

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

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

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.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

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

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.