Immigration to the United States (Maryland) Over time, the United States has come to be known as the land of the free and the land of opportunity. We have become the strongest and the most powerful country in the world. Common everyday freedom of speech and freedom of religion are taken for granted all the time. People in less-developed countries don’t have the luxury of saying what they want, or even living the life that they want to. Americans should be very grateful that we live in a land of democracy, and not under communists rule or ....