“If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”
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“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”
“All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it.”
“All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.”
“There is no place more delightful than home.”
“The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.”
“The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong”
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
“Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.”
“The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.”
“It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.”
“Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.”
“War does not decide who is right but who is left.”
“Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.”
“When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.”
“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.”
“Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.”
“If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.”
“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”
“If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.”