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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.

Barbara Amiel

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
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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Divide Enslaved Today World
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
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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Country Journey Opportunity
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
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
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
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
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Empty Rhetoric World
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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Barbarians Wall World
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
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
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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Confusion Ideas Progress
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
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Liberty Mafia Members

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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