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.

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

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.

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.

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

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

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