American democracy Quote by Peter Ustinov

“American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.”

Peter Ustinov

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