The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.