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.

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.

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.