Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of the press which Americans enj…

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] sho…

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire? (This quote, and the one following, were part of his defence for joining Sitiveni Rabuka's military government…

The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much …