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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.

Barbara Amiel

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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Confidence Inspire Self Sexy
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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Energy Europe Materials Raw
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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America Independence Trying
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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Canada Wall World
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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Recycling Speech Vortex
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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Divide Enslaved Today World
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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Benefits Country Running
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Liberty Mafia Members
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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Liberty Vices Virtue
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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Ideas Morning Style
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Common Crime World
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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Century Communist Movement
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Today West Wings
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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Common Dictatorial Liberty System World
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Destruction Liberty Share
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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Military People Technology

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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