In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIELIn a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
More Barbara Amiel Quotes
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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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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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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 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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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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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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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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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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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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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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Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
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