"Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up."
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"We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
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"The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free."
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"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
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"Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have."
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"how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?"
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"A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression."
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"The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech."
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
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"When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free."
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"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."
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"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that."
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"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up."
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"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
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"We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed."
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"Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend."
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"Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God."
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"In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society."
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