Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.