Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

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

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

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.