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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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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.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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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.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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" Viewing a glorious sunrise in Alberta in 1920 he wrote in his diary "I thought of the New Day the New Social Order. McGregor publiWilliam Lyon Mackenzie Kingd the far-sighted book Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Underlying Industrial Reconstruction a dense abstract work that went over the head of most readers but revealed the practical idealism behind King's political thinking. He never favoured socialism.

William Lyon Mackenzie King PC OM CMG (December 17 1874 – July 22 1950) also commonly known as Mackenzie King was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. A Liberal with 22 years in office he was the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history. Trained in law and social work he was keenly interested in the human condition (as a boy his motto was "Help those that cannot help themselves") and played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state.

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