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

I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

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.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

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.