Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.
‐‐ Tom Smothers
Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.
‐‐ Mohammed Morsi
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
‐‐ Corazon Aquino
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
‐‐ Benjamin Cardozo
Freedom of expression is very important.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte
Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
‐‐ Brigitte Boisselier
Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.
‐‐ John C. Stennis
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
‐‐ Ron Lewis
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
‐‐ Frank Murphy
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
‐‐ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.
‐‐ John C. McGinley
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz
Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
‐‐ Otto Schily
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
‐‐ Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
‐‐ Richard G. Scott
Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.
‐‐ Todd Young
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
‐‐ Danny Glover
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
‐‐ Robert Jackson
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
‐‐ James Bovard
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
‐‐ Kenneth Scott Latourette
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Freedom without limits is just a word.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
‐‐ Judith Martin
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
‐‐ Jose Marti
FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.
‐‐ Alex Pareene
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.
‐‐ Mark Helprin
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
‐‐ Terry Waite
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
‐‐ Bodhidharma
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
‐‐ Toni Morrison
Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
‐‐ Joy Page
Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
‐‐ Bill Lipinski
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
‐‐ Edward Sapir
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner
French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
‐‐ Simon Baker