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.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges