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We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country’s war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.