“I certainly think that America's very schizophrenic, there's no question. I think you see and it is as American as apple pie, you see the conflict between the notion of personal freedom as espoused by the founding fathers and the puritan values that were there before, and that that conflict is, is what America is all about, and we see it even, you know even as we come to the end of the century.”
— Hugh Hefner, INTERVIEW WITH HUGH HEFNER
Tagged: America, The United States, Conflicts of Freedom
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