Request Reprint Send us your request to reprint copyrighted material. We cherish that freedom here at The Signal, and distinctly so, because it is a daily exercise for us. It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
As long as a country has no civil liberty and freedom of information and no independent press, then there exists no effective body of public opinion to control the conduct of government. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth an falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people. Since I write a humor column, I have a vested interest in a free press. The people who attempt to do the same thing I am doing in 95 percent of the world are either in gulags, under house arrest or are jobless.