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

Virtue, Liberty, Vice

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

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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."

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

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

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"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships."

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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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"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."

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

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