If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

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

I’ve always found that you can control people better if you don’t see too much of them.

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.

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

Regardless of what one’s attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

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

I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

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