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

Barbara Amiel

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
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
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Century Feudalism Totalitarianism
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
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
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
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
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Empty Rhetoric 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
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 same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Liberty Mafia Members
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
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

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