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“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief””. –James Naismith

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

“We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. –Pierre Trudeau

“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party”. –Goldwin Smith

“This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this, and all jobs in journalism, have believed that”. –Peter Jennings