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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.