Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

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.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

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

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

I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as having been there and made a fuss. This doesn't mean I don't believe in participatory democracy.