“What gives me grounds for optimism is that this is the only country on the face of the Earth where if you tell a 10-year-old kid, "You can't do" something and it strikes him as absurd, a 10-year-old kid looks up and says "It's a free country." This is the only nation on Earth whose children say "It's a free country."”

— Alan Charles Kors

It's going to take a whole lot to root that out of the American spirit.
2010s, Who's too Weak to Live with Freedom? (2013)

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