William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

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• Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
• Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
• Every hour of useful work is precious.
• I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
• I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
• A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
• Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
• Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
• 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…
• Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and…
• The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large…
• 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.
• Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
• Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
• As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there…
• Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks…
• Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

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