The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. Colin Powell
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. William Orville Douglas