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