“Today in many Western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from pub…”— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader.ir
“People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.”— Phil McGraw, amazon.com
“Even though Wondery cut ties with him, Boudet does not want people to start boycotting the company or anyone that advertises with them.”— Tim Baysinger, thewrap.com
“If we can attribute the violence of a few to the speech of public figures, the only available solution would be to curtail speech. And we cannot base our standard for protected speech on those with eggshell skulls.”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the…”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“Yes, if I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment, which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government. I mean, that was the main kind of speech…”— Antonin Scalia, cnn.com
“You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.”— Larry Flynt, books.google.com
“Freedom of speech is not freedom for the fellow you love. It's freedom for the fellow you hate the most. And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for gran…”— Larry Flynt, cnn.com
“When I first started out, I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.”— Larry Flynt, cnn.com
“There’s only one excuse for censorship. That’s Bill O’Reilly. I’ll vote for that.”— Larry Flynt, pbs.org
“We pay a price for everything to live in a free society. And what we pay for free speech is toleration. We have to tolerate things that we don’t necessarily like so we can be free.”— Larry Flynt, pbs.org
“That’s how the Patriot Act got passed. Bush got that through and nobody objected because they felt that the country faced serious threats from abroad and it’s still in place. President Obama allowed it to continue. See, when you give up something, it’s very, very difficult to get it back.”— Larry Flynt, pbs.org
“But I think Americans need to know when they’re giving up their privacy. I think that’s just as important as the speech issue. So the government is really not necessarily protecting peoples’ right to free speech as well as they’re not saying they have a right to privacy.”— Larry Flynt, pbs.org
“Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I’m not whining about it because I don’t dwell on things I can’t do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet. If I had it done over, I’d probably have done the same thing again.”— Larry Flynt, pbs.org
“Joey admits he’s not some perfectly pure-of-heart missionary, that he’s also a bit of a provocateur. Though how provocative should it be, he wonders, to attend your own free-speech rallies in liberal enclaves in a free country without wishing to be physically attacked?”— Matt Labash, weeklystandard.com
“Here’s my problem. I think the people who showed up in Charlottesville to square off against self-identified neo-Nazis did the world a service, and I applaud them. But when I see antifa showing up at places like UC Berkeley and setting fire to cars and throwing rocks through windows in order to prev…”— Sean Illing, vox.com
“The ACLU is not defending white supremacist groups but instead is defending a principle – one that it must defend if it is going to be successful in defending free speech rights for people you support.”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.com
“It’s easy to be dismissive of this serious aspect of the debate if you’re some white American or non-Muslim American whose free speech is very unlikely to be depicted as ‘material support for Terrorism’ or otherwise criminalized. But if you’re someone who cares about the free speech attacks on radic…”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.com