Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.