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.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Things do not get better by being left alone.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.