A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.
The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people.
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage.
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the Establishment.
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters in his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.