Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

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

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.

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

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.