Concept
Freedom of speech
Overview
right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas, subject to special duties and responsibilities
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A magistrate who sincerely aims at the good of society will always have the inclinations of a great majority on his side, and an impartial posterity will not fail to render him justice. Those abuses of the freedom of speech are the exercises of liberty. They ought to be repressed; but to whom dare we commit the care of doing it? An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a…
Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
The chapter “ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS.” is titled for Freedom of speech; states what Freedom of speech is.
The arrangements for rendering the choice of the judges such as to obtain the highest average of virtue and intelligence; the salutary forms of procedure; the publicity which allows observation and criticism of whatever is amiss; the liberty of discussion and cinsure through the press; the mode of taking evidence, according as it is well or ill adapted to elicit truth; the facilities, whatever be their amount, for…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
The author is tied to Freedom of speech in the knowledge graph.
But it is better to be on our guard against wrong actions, through listening to the persuasion of those that advise us well, than to repent, after we have done wrong, in consequence of the reproaches of our enemies. And so we ought to employ tact in our freedom of speech, as it is the greatest and most powerful remedy in friendship, and always needs a well-chosen occasion, and moderation in applying it.
Plutarch, Plutarch's Morals
Names Freedom of speech twice; opens on Freedom of speech.
Philosophers who discussed Freedom of speech
Related ideas
- Erasmus
- Freedom of the press
- French Revolution
- George Orwell
- Government
- Glorious Revolution
- Letters on the English
- Giordano Bruno
- Hate speech
- Internet
- Intellectual property
- James Joyce
- John Stuart Mill
- Joseph Stalin
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Idea
- John Milton
- Censorship
- Muhammad
- The Guardian
- BBC
- Myanmar
- Baron d'Holbach
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.