For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.