The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened