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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as it...

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Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions tha...

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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which,...

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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any ot...

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If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we ar...

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Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion th...

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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or la...

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The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.

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

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

Former Prime Minister of Canada

Born: 1874-12-17

Died: 1950-07-22

William Lyon Mackenzie King PC OM CMG (17 December 1874 - 22 July 1950) was the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921, to June 28, 1926; September 25, 1926, to August 7, 1930; and October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948. With over 21 years in the office, he was the longest serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history.More