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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."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"

"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."

"A lot of blood,A lot of dead people,A lot of victims,A lot of useless battles,A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall..."

"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
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"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."


"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."


"There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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