I've always lived in a democratic society.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

lf there is anything that puzzles me in this game lt is that the longer that you are in the job of Prime Minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else, such as stenography, administering a store, or whatever done it for nine or ten years you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy and you can spend a lot of time playing golf or something. l feel that the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come.

I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.