John Bracken's Quotes

It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.