You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

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.