Barbara Amiel on today
Barbara Amiel23 quotes“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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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 AmielBarbara Amiel By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara AmielBarbara Amiel 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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