To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

The 'C' students run the world.

In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.