Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

Tags: intelligence liberty free-will freedom stupidity free-speech civil-rights



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

G.K. Chesterton

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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

Utah Phillips

Tags: politics freedom free-speech political free-speech-movement



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Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Winston S. Churchill

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

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All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.

Richard Pryor

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