Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.