Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
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.
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
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.
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
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.
