When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.