Nous Sommes Charlie: Offence Is Never Given - Only Taken.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are like all other rights: to keep them you have to exercise them -- and sometimes that takes courage and involves risk. We should be profoundly grateful to those who help keep that right for us by exercising it.

And today, our thoughts are with our French friends -- and especially with the families and friends of those who have been directly attacked for using that most important of freedoms -- freedom of speech -- to stimulate our use of another -- freedom of thought.

And we don't lose sight of the fact that we must stop ceding the moral high-ground in fighting against such an attack on liberty through a foreign policy that makes terrorists by killing innocents. Nor do we forget the impingement on the same liberty by our own politicians.

Offense is Always Taken -- Never Given... but if it could be given, it would be only by physical aggression against innocent people.