"The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness."

"Rational comprehension of the universe is not enough. We must call to our aid not merely reason, but the vision and t…"

"I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself."

"We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our ow…"

"In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we …"

"This visit "north of 60" was to complete what might be called at least a preliminary survey. I arrived here and reali…"

"It is worthy of notice that many of this generation, fed on text-books, on anthologies and on abstracts, cannot read."

"The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots."

"The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age."

"We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization tha…"