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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

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
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
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
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
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Liberty Mafia Members
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Common Crime World
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
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
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
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
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Century Feudalism Totalitarianism
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
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
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Destruction Liberty Share
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

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