Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.
No country is free unless it is democratic.
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
That's why our country is such a beautiful, beautiful experiment: We manifest, we allow freedom if you follow certain rules and if you work really hard. That's at the root of our cherished values.
I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.
You can't build a society without law.
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