I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

Success is when what you THINK, SAY, and DO are the same.

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.