I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favor of things which seem at some given moment more vital.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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

If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.