“None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.”
Mark Twain
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
Abbie Hoffman
“Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous”
Tony Hendra
“Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Winston Churchill
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black
“Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
Herbert Hoover
