Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

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.

You, ” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

Kill your fear and rule the world.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

I love myself so much, I simply cannot describe it.

When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"

A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind.

... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.