If you mean to profit, learn to please.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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.