The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
A nice easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
But if people want to swim in the Thames if they want to take their lives into their own hands then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
I had spent many years pursuing excellence because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom and that was far more important.
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.