“And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak. James Russell Lowell
“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society…. A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.Walter Lippmann
“The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.George Mason