If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.