Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
BARBARA AMIELOur 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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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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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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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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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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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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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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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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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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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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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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