Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.