Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

If you give yourself a chance to get to know your positive inner-self better, you would never have a need to be someone else.

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.

Confidence now, in the past and it will continue to be the mankind problem!

A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.