To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

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.

For peace, look not outside but inside.

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.