How we cite our quotes: (Sentence)
Quote #1
A strong, free world in the West, that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium—virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth; the European Community was founded. (32-34)
This is what Japan and the West are up to these days: getting their democratic capitalism on. Isn't it wonderful, West Germany? (Paying attention, East Germany?)
Quote #2
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind—too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great an inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor. (45-51)
Oh, snap! Even today, after forty years of this "communist bloc" stuff, the Soviet Union can't even feed its people. Meanwhile over here in the West, land of the rich, victorious peace-lovers, it's party time.
Quote #3
And now the Soviets may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom… Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, designed to raise false hopes in the West..? (52-58)
Now the U.S. takes on the role of the wronged partner in a relationship on the rocks: are you messing with us, East? You've said you're going to change, and we want to believe you…are you just telling us what we want to hear?
Quote #4
In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth. In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place—a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications. In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom. Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: it must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete. (86-90)
One of these things is not like the other…and it's the East. Look around, East, and get it together. Everyone's having a grand time making money and being free…everyone, that is, except the Soviet Union and its posse of communists. It's time to make some changes, East. It's time to be more like the West. Everybody's doing it.
Quote #5
Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. (118-20)
Yup, you read that right: totalitarianism sucks the humanness out of living. Clearly no one wants to hang out with someone who sucks the humanness out of everything. Looks like the West wins this round too.