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Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.
Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now - at the highest levels of the federal government.
Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.
Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.
We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.
Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.
We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.
The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.
The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.