We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)
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I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'
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This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)
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The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.
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How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
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The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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