Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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

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

Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.