Words matter. These are the best Barbara Amiel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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.
It did not occur to us that the Marxists’ solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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.
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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.
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.
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.
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free 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.