"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."

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Politician

Power, War, People, Needs

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"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."

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"Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws."

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"On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction."

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"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war."

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"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."

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

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"In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons."

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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."

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"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."

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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

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"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

John Acton, English Historian

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"India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it."

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"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."

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