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.

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its political and social manifestations as far as I can see.

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.

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

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.