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Letter "F" » free speech
«By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.»
Author: Harry A. Blackmun
| About:
Censorship,
Discretion,
Speech
| Keywords:
censorship, chills, discretion, free speech, grant, license, official, placing, statute, threat
«Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Criticism,
Freedom,
Government,
Press,
Speech
| Keywords:
amendment, embraces, free speech, parts of speech, part of speech, portions, sanctuary
«Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
bondage, burnt, free speech, irrational, justify
«If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'»
«Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| Keywords:
free speech
«Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
axes, axis, favors, free speech, slacked, slacking
«Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
ball game, Ball games, free speech, whole thing
«Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
applaud, butter, cattle, diseased, free speech, hissed, impure, regulated
«Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.»
«Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
free speech, permitted
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