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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.


Heywood Broun

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LARRY FLYNT And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands fo...
RON DAVIES Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
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CATIE MARRON No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
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JOHN HEYWOOD Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
JOHN LENNON I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have...
TOMI LAHREN People are entitled to free speech.
MICHAEL JONES There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but ...
ANITA BROOKNER There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but ...
ANITA BROOKNER Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owner...
DAVID STERN When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are...
CHRISTOPHER DODD God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
HEYWOOD BROUN A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
HEYWOOD BROUN Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
HEYWOOD BROUN Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always ...
HEYWOOD BROUN We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hat...
HEYWOOD BROUN Men are blind in their own cause.
HEYWOOD BROUN The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is ...
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
HEYWOOD BROUN Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
HEYWOOD BROUN Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for a...
HEYWOOD BROUN Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a cr...
HEYWOOD BROUN Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hu...
HEYWOOD BROUN In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in hi...
HEYWOOD BROUN A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
HEYWOOD BROUN Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
HEYWOOD BROUN The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
HEYWOOD BROUN The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of ma...
HEYWOOD BROUN I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure w...
HEYWOOD BROUN The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings fr...
HEYWOOD BROUN Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
HEYWOOD BROUN Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tire, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
HEYWOOD BROUN Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
HEYWOOD BROUN A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
HEYWOOD BROUN Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his di...
HEYWOOD BROUN Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is i...
HEYWOOD BROUN As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost a...
HEYWOOD BROUN With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you...
HEYWOOD BROUN Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLES Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
JOHN LENNON It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Onl...
R. H. COASE When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press...
CHRISTOPHER DODD Everybody gears toward stopping No. 22 and with everybody focused on Shelly Paige, it lets our other...
BETH WILLIAMS Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to peopl...
ALAN GREENSPAN Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
SALMAN RUSHDIE They are free, and my brother is rotting in the ground.
JOSE CASTRO Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH In terms of free speech, there are questions which are much more important than this.
DAGENS NYHETER The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...
CARLOS FUENTES Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
WAYNE ROGERS Freedom of speech as I define it is more than a right granted by government. It's a process that eac...
T.J. KIRK Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE It's no secret that refineries are the problem. There wouldn't be a problem if there was any slack i...
TONY NUNAN It isn't a free speech issue; it's a matter of public decency.
ALAN KEYES You only got 30 days of free speech in Montgomery County.
RICHARD GRIFFITHS The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress sh...
GREG ALLEN It's not just about the Voice having free speech. The administrators, not just the students, deserve...
LARRY SNOW No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when th...
ELIZABETH PEYTON Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY From 1950 to 2000, the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.5 percent. That generated a massive...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW People have the right of free speech and that includes being able to walk up and ask for money.
RICHARD DORAN The question is, what are the rights of free speech? Our belief is, no matter what, we should releas...
JOSE LEAL The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it...
TONY HENDRA You don't want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you're s...
MUHAMMAD ALI Free speech includes the right to not speak.
JIMMY WALES Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majesti...
BISHOP REGINALD HEBER When Pfeiffer gets hot, everybody gets hot. She has the ability to hit that big shot in big moments.
ELEIA RODDY There are tough moments, but I see them happy and jovial, and I know that's the environment that spe...
EMILY CAMPBELL There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There's a real free speech issue, but it's Larry squelching other people's free speech. He's an incr...
DANIEL FISHER Free speech works because most of us know when to keep our mouths shut.
KAY ANDERSON A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.
AMIT KALANTRI When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMAN If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
JAY SEKULOW I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doe...
JON STEWART In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no pe...
MURIEL RUKEYSER To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G.K. CHESTERTON Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL [DeLay, left, says] the free speech implications of the legislation are very clear ... We retain fre...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
IRA HAYES It's possible that they didn't make hand axes because they didn't know how. But there's no good loca...
CHRISTOPHER STRINGER If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
ROBIN QUIVERS I think, if anything, it's going to invigorate us to strive harder to stand up for free speech.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Rome was not built in one day.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Put your toong in your purse.
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JOHN HEYWOOD A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
JOHN HEYWOOD Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
THOMAS HEYWOOD Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
THOMAS HEYWOOD When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)
JOHN HEYWOOD What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
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JOHN HEYWOOD The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
JOHN HEYWOOD Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
JOHN HEYWOOD To drink away sorrow.
JOHN HEYWOOD As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
JOHN HEYWOOD Better is to bow than breake.
JOHN HEYWOOD What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
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JOHN HEYWOOD Went in at the one eare and out at the other.
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JOHN HEYWOOD 'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
JOHN HEYWOOD It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]
JOHN HEYWOOD Haste makes waste.
JOHN HEYWOOD This wonder lasted nine daies.
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JOHN HEYWOOD At our wittes end.
JOHN HEYWOOD What the dickens!
THOMAS HEYWOOD The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
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THOMAS HEYWOOD To grow a philosopher's beard.
JOHN HEYWOOD To give importance to trifling matters.
JOHN HEYWOOD A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].
JOHN HEYWOOD By hooke or crooke.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Set all at sixe and seven.
JOHN HEYWOOD Nought venture nought have.
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