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.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

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

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