When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.