Thomas Jefferson Free Speech Quotes & Sayings

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801] — Thomas Jefferson

Any place with a founder who brings a teddy bear to meetings," he writes, "is a step away from Jonestown. — Dan Lyons

The only security of all is in a free press. — Thomas Jefferson

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band. — Billy Corgan

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid. — Frank Lowy

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' — Robin Quivers

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. — John F. Kerry

Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody. — Dan Marino

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners! — Bill Vaughan

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. — Carol P. Christ

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard