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Danh ngôn của William Lyon Mackenzie King (Sứ mệnh: 3)

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
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.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
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.
When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
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.