A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.