- Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
- 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 of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile... Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws....Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
- If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
- When it comes to politics, one has to do as one [does] at sea with a sailing ship... reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
- It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
- Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
- This town liberated by the Canadian Army." When King was defeated in his Prince Albert riding, this sign is alleged to have been erected there, in reference to the servicemen's vote (and also to the recent liberation of the Netherlands from political tyranny by Canadian soldiers).
- A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
- [his impression of Adolf Hitler after meeting him, 1937] My sizing up of the man as I sat and talked with him is that he is one who truly loves his fellow-men...His eyes impressed most of all. There was a liquid quality about them which indicate keen perception and profound sympathy...He has a very nice, sweet [smile] and one could see how particularly humble folk would come to have a profound love for the man... As I talked to him, I could not but think of Joan of Arc.
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