Free society and free speech

I am not really into politics or economics. Their issues are usually more complex than my brain can handle. But the following speeches really resonate in me:

1. The first is by Margaret Thatcher on free society.

" We believe they should be individual. We are all unequal ... we believe that everyone has the right be to unequal. But to us, every human being is equally important. A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as his servant and not his master. They are the essence of a free economy, and on that freedom, all our other freedom depends." 

Margaret Thatcher (1975)

2. I would never have expected Mr Bean to give a speech on free speech. Rowan Atkinson can say any serious stuff and they will still sound funny to me. And that is what make this speech so appealing - seriousness with a dash of humour.



3. This speech is packed with punches. Jabs and crosses unpulled. Very serious, very angry, very well-argued.