William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC, also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada in 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Second World Warwhen he mobilized Canadian money, supplies and volunteers to support Britain while boosting the economy and maintaining home front morale. A Liberal with 22 years in office, he...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 December 1874
CountryCanada
William Lyon Mackenzie King quotes about
Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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.
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.
I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
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.
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.