Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice..

Freedom can flow from order. That is not to say that freedom always flows from order because you can have a totalitarian order and you can have an un….

If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of c….

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its po….

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence..

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game..

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states..

I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll hav….

There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emp….

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for….

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers..

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada..

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic..

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants..

The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, tha….

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse..

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state..

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is som….

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to expr….

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent..