To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

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.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.