Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.