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I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

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Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

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My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

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Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

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Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

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I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

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I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Clergyman

Born: October 20th, 1904

Died: February 24th, 1986

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