The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.

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

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

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

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.