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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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Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.

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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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One always feels that not only should each speaking occasion require a new speech but also for everybody's sake including my own, a new past.

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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

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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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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

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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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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

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

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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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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its 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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The Chinese understand that slave labour, which they thrive on, is not productive or useful to the economy if it is only extracted by torture.

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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.

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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.

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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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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

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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.

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

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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

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But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speaking circuit. It has caught up with me.

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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

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