This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.