Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

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

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.