Areopagitica: A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing To The Parliament Of England, by John Milton, 23 Nov 1644
"... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

Free Speech Is Not So Free, by Deroy Murdock, 23 Mar 2000

Free Speech on the Ropes, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Jan 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Ron Paul
"Brett Bursey, 54 years old, was arrested for holding a 'No War for Oil' sign too near the hangar where Bush would be speaking. Local police, acting under Secret Service orders, supposedly established a 'free speech zone' far from the airport hangar. ... After moving twice, Bursey refused to move again and was arrested."

Freedom of Speech in Software, by John Gilmore, 14 Oct 1998
Speech at ApacheCon
"The whole creation of 'software patents' as a class of patentable items is an administrative fiction created by creative misreading of a 1981 Supreme Court decision ... Export controls on cryptographic software are the second case where the government has tried to control the publication of software."

Protecting Opinions That We Loathe, by Joan Kennedy Taylor, FACT - First Amendment Cyber-Tribune

Stifling free speech, by Doug Bandow, 28 Mar 2001

Storm troopers vs. free speech, by Thomas Sowell, 22 Mar 2001

Swift Boat Censorship, by Anthony Gregory, 8 Sep 2004
"President Bush and many Republicans used to have the correct position on campaign-finance reform: Political ads are a form of speech protected by the First Amendment ... Now that they hold the reins of power ... they have, not surprisingly, decided to embrace this odious type of censorship."

The "Good-Government" Attack on Free Speech, by Sheldon Richman, 1 May 2001

The Bill of Rights: Freedom of Speech, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Jul 2004
"The most important principle involved in free speech is this: The true test of a free society in terms of freedom of speech is not whether popular and 'responsible' speech is protected from government assault but instead whether the most vile and despicable speech receives such protection."

The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age, by Paul Craig Roberts, 29 Dec 2006
Related Topic: Terrorism
"Today there are a few large conglomerates whose values depend on broadcast licenses from the government. The conglomerates are run by corporate executives who are not journalists and whose eyes are on advertising revenues. They publish and broadcast what is safe. These conglomerates will take no risks in behalf of free speech or truth."

The Meaning of Free Speech, by Charley Reese, 18 Mar 2006
"When the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment, it was not their intention to protect politically correct speech. It is exactly the purpose of the First Amendment to protect unpopular speech. Read John Stuart Mill's essay 'On Liberty.' The value of freedom is the diversity of opinions and thoughts it encourages."

VICTORY! For Freedom of Speech: Winning Our First Amendment Suit Against the FDA, by Durk Pearson, , 1 Jul 1999

Yahoo! We Have Free Speech, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 1 Mar 2001

“Free-Speech Zone”: The administration quarantines dissent, by James Bovard, The American Conservative, 15 Dec 2003
Related Topic: George W. Bush

Justice, Not Magic, Returns Harry Potter Series to Library Bookshelves, 24 Apr 2003
Related Topics: Harry Potter

Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution, by Murray N. Rothbard, Cato Journal 2, 1982
Related Topics: Law, Randy E. Barnett, Cancer, Richard A. Epstein, Ethics, Personal Responsibility, Property, Property Rights
"... no one has a property right in his 'reputation.' Reputation is strictly a function of the subjective opinions of other minds, and they have the absolute right to their own opinions whatever they may be. Hence, outlawing defamation is itself a gross invasion of the defamer's right of freedom of speech, which is a subset of his property right in his own person."

Privatize the Airwaves!, by Sheldon Richman, 26 Apr 2004
Related Topics: Private Property, Howard Stern

Sophie Scholl: A Life of Courage, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, May 2007
Related Topics: Sophie Scholl
Review of the 2005 German film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
"It creates fresh perspective on freedoms we take for granted, such as the ability to speak without being killed for doing so. It reminds us to jealously protect that freedom ... especially in times of war when speaking truth to power can easily and officially become 'aiding the enemy' and treason."

Wartime Attacks on Civil Liberties, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, Dec 2005
Related Topics: War
"Many citizens and politicians are seized with the idea that any disagreement with the war policies is a threat to national survival and must be suppressed ... Opposition to or even indifference toward the war is equated with disloyalty, and the ... notion that the people have an overarching obligation of loyalty to the state rises to support the crackdown."

Cartoons

I'm All For Free Speech, by Ann Telnaes, 17 Apr 2007

When they shut up Howard Stern, I, of course, did nothing ..., by Tony Auth
Related Topic: Howard Stern

Good morning out there in radio land!, by Jeff Danziger, 15 Mar 2004
Related Topics: Howard Stern

I'll miss the freedom ..., by Joel Pett, 18 Mar 2004
Related Topics: Howard Stern

Books

Speaking Freely: The Public Interest in Unfettered Speech
by John Corry, Doug Bandow, Edward H. Crane III (Introduction), 1995

ISBN 0937790516: Paperback, Media Institute, 1995

Music

Freedom of Speech
by Ice-T
Rap song

Videos

You Can't Say That: What's Happening to Free Speech?
by John Stossel, 27 Jul 2000