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 …

- William Lyon Mackenzie

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

- William Lyon Mackenzie

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

- William Lyon Mackenzie

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

- William Lyon Mackenzie