[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.