By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIELOnly a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
More Barbara Amiel Quotes
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well – the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect.
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Of course the barbarians’ aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver’s Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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