By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIELIf 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.
More Barbara Amiel Quotes
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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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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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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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 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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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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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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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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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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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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