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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Barbara 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.
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Recycling Speech Vortex
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
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Empty Rhetoric World
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Liberty Mafia Members
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
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.
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Latin Military Wall
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Country Empires Unions
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
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
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
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Destruction Liberty Share
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
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Common Crime World

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

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