If it is difficult to define commercial speech, doesn't that chill speech?


Anthony Kennedy

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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it...
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It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatene...
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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR
[Justice Anthony] Kennedy is willing to restrict it but not overturn it.
MICHAEL DORF
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
JEF I. RICHARDS
Freedom of speech as I define it is more than a right granted by government. It's a process that eac...
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
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The best answer to bad speech is good speech
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If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
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Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
ANTOINE RIVAROL
The other issue it raises is the kind of speech we'll hear. The strongest speech people see when the...
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth ...
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The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of ...
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we f...
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated
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Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is m...
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It's difficult to tell from these poll results how the speech will affect general U.S. public,
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad...
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...
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Money is property; it is not speech.
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The American courts ruled that money is speech and speech can't be limited in politics because of fr...
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous c...
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
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Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as...
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secul...
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[While digital speech is sounding better, it still has a way to go, industry experts acknowledge.] S...
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Governor Bush came in a read a speech ... It was a great speech, great words.
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The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it ...
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Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth
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If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,
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Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
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There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It's a disappointing sta...
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It isn't a free speech issue; it's a matter of public decency.
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You only got 30 days of free speech in Montgomery County.
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Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
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Silence is also speech
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
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Wow, ... If ever there was a time for bipartisanship, I didn't hear it in that last speech.
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[DeLay, left, says] the free speech implications of the legislation are very clear ... We retain fre...
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The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is mo...
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JELLO BIAFRA
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
GEORGE HERBERT
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
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Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owner...
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Silence is safer than speech.
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A great speech is literature.
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Surliness is incivility in speech.
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The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, ...
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Silence is golden; speech is silver
AMERICAN PROVERB
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
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Speech is silver; silence is golden.
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Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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It felt like a legacy speech.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before t...
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is ...
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Free speech works because most of us know when to keep our mouths shut.
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Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it...
TONY HENDRA
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.
ROB ROGERS
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
dishonors this country's traditional respect for free speech.
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It's not just about the Voice having free speech. The administrators, not just the students, deserve...
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I realize that there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I may not be able...
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People are entitled to free speech.
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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the ...
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Free speech is a one-way street with them.
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I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. ...
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I'm a huge believer in free speech. I'm a street performer. But you can't impede somebody else's spe...
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There's a real free speech issue, but it's Larry squelching other people's free speech. He's an incr...
DANIEL FISHER
In terms of free speech, there are questions which are much more important than this.
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But only after they apologize first for exercising their free speech, is that correct?
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Song is the heroics of speech.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
EUGENE KENNEDY
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
DAN KENNEDY
For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.
DAN KENNEDY
Just out of curiosity,” she says, “after you wake up in the morning, do you admire yourself in t...
ELLE KENNEDY
We shall build on.
On through the cynic
STUDDERT KENNEDY
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what...
ROSE KENNEDY
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to ma...
ROSE KENNEDY
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDY
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains ...
ROSE KENNEDY
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if ...
A.L. KENNEDY
Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determine...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, ...
ROSE KENNEDY
Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consi...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life h...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY
Allison Janney is amazing, and Anna Faris was a revelation to me.
MIMI KENNEDY
I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it.
MIMI KENNEDY
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,...
ROSE KENNEDY
You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
GRAHAM KENNEDY
We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.
EDWARD KENNEDY
We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY
At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administr...
MARK KENNEDY
The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local custo...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can...
CHARLES KENNEDY
Introspection! I hate it!
ETHEL KENNEDY
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
ROSE KENNEDY
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actu...
RANDALL KENNEDY
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual res...
CHARLES KENNEDY