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

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Source : William Lyon Mackenzie King, John English, John O. Stubbs (1977). “Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate”

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#Government Quotes

“I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.”
“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.”

Source : "Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2010.
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
“I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.”
“When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.”
“We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.”

Source : Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.47
“I'm fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.”
“Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.”

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