The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

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.

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.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.