Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.