Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.