Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [221-240] of 502 Speech quotesSpeech QuotesSpeech Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.~ Charlton Heston A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.~ Granville Hicks The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.~ Granville Hicks There is a utilitarian case for free expression. It recognizes that the freedom to speak must also be insisted on for the person who thinks differently, because it is pointless to support only free speech for people who agree with you. It is not only unprincipled to want that, but also self-defeating. For your own sake, you need to know how other people think.~ Christopher Hitchens The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.~ Adolf Hitler Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.~ William Earnest Hocking Another perceived attribute of intellectuals that needs rethinking and revision: the assumption that they are deeply and unequivocally committed to personal, political and intellectual freedom and especially free expression…many Western intellectuals’ commitment to intellectual freedom is selective at best.~ Paul Hollander I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country... Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech.'~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.~ Homer To silence criticism is to silence freedom.~ Sidney Hook Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.~ Herbert Hoover It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.~ Herbert Hoover I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.~ Edgar Watson Howe The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic government.~ Edgar Watson Howe Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?~ Kin Hubbard It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes The right to comment freely and criticize the action, opinions, and judgment of courts is of primary importance to the public generally. Not only is it good for the public; but it has a salutary effect on courts and judges as well.~ James P. Hughes Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print