Quotes about Expression
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
- Frederick Douglass
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
- Harry S. Truman
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
- John Lennon
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
- Euripides
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
- Abbie Hoffman
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
- Bruce Lee
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.
- Lloyd John Ogilvie
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
- Epictetus
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
- Khalil Gibran
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
- William Faulkner
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
- Clay Aiken