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.
BARBARA AMIELThere 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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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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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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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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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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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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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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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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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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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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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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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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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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