General benevolence but not general friendship made a man what he ought to be.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for and sometimes winning and sometimes losing the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and more generally for freedom of speech.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

If the events of September 11 2001 have proven anything it's that the terrorists can attack us but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom our liberty our civil rights. No only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.