Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 502 Speech quotesSpeech QuotesSpeech Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.~ Albert Gallatin The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.~ Helen H. Gardner Describing an action or an event as the "consequence" of speech presupposes that there is some causal connection between them. A central issue in any debate about the limits of free speech is the nature and the imminence of the causal connection between speech and its alleged consequences…. In actual social situations it is impossible to isolate factors and determine their contribution to effects. Such control is extremely complicated even in a scientific laboratory.~ Ruth Gavison He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.~ Henry George Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.~ Anne Louise Germaine de Stael The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.~ Langdon Gilkey A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.~ Jo Godwin The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.~ Mike Godwin It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.~ Joseph Paul Goebbels Some books seem to have been written not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To subject an artist’s work to a litmus test of political probity – and to punish institutions that will not carry out the mandate of the state – is to traffic in the thought control that gave us Stalinism and Nazism…~ Richard Goldstein The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.~ Samuel Gompers When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.~ Paul Goodman Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney Griswold The freedom of thought and speech arising from and privileged by our constitution gives force and poignancy to the expressions of our common people.~ Francis Grose The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.~ Francois Pierre Guizot You never hear about constitutional rights, free speech, and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, “That man is a Red, that man is a communist.” You never hear a real American talk like that.~ Frank Hague That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.~ Alexander Haig In the history of censorship, the oldest and most frequently recurring controls have been those designed to prevent unorthodox and unpopular expressions of political or religions opinions.~ Ann Lyon Haight If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.~ Louis J. Halle Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print