The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.