English - The Language Of Liberty

The Third Man writes:
Here in Vienna, which is one of the major crossroads of Europe, a capital city that is near the borders of several different European countries, many people speak
 English, not just local Viennese, but Germans, and Slavs and Turks and whoever.
It is easy to put this use of English as a lingua franca down to the power of the Anglo Saxons, particularly the United States, but I prefer to see English as a language of choice, not one of necessity.
English is not German and it is not Russian. Too many people in these parts have known the tyrrany of German and Russian masters.
England and, more particularly the United States, represent freedom and democracy.
What does freedom mean? It means that we are all equal before the law. It means that there is no lord or lady, no duke or count, no commissar, no party member who can tell you what to do, who can demand your passport, and to direct you to live in such and such a town, wear these and those clothes, do this or that job, believe one thing, pray to their idol.
This is what freedom means, and this is what America, and the culture of the English language means.
Many Scots may wish to live in a politically correct bureaucratic hell hole and to drag England with it, and there are serious threats to liberty in both America and England, but for the rest of the world, subjected for centuries to the whim of command, they love to speak English, the language of liberty.