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.

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

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

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

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

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.