The Spirit Of Liberty Speech By Judge Learned Hand

What does it mean to be an American, to me it means that I have certain rights and freedoms that nobody can take away from me unless I deserve them to be taken. Most people believe that being an american means that you can get away with doing whatever you want because they have freedom of speech or the rights to do it, but sometimes those rights don’t apply and to me that seems like they are just trying to take advantage of what everyone believes what being an American means. Being an American means that you have more privileges than most countries do and people take that for granted. I read The “Spirit of Liberty” speech by Judge Learned Hand and I agree with what they had to say about liberty and freedom. What they thought about freedom and liberty was very close to what I thought of liberty and freedom and how many Americans believe that freedom is what we sought for and in the future we sought for liberty, and what the Hand said about liberty just about summed up my thoughts on liberty. They said that liberty was the freedom from oppression, freedom from want, and freedom from ourselves, but what most Americans
I believe that having self respect is very important to being an American because if none of us had self respect then we would all be twice as hateful and aggressive to each other. Having self respect is really important and the way that most Americans see it, it’s not as important as most other feelings which is not true, But we also need to have courtesy for others so that we can get along, we might not all be friends but we can atleast be nice to each other to make some situations be figured out a lot faster and with less violence. Self respect is needed because as Americans we have certain rights, if we don’t have courtesy then a lot of our conflicts with each other will end in violence and hatred that we already have too much of in this