William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes (35 quotes)

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„The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.“
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„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 effort.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.“
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„Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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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„There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.“
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„The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.“
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„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.“
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„Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.“
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„Usury once in control will wreck the nation.“
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„Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.“
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„Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.“
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„Every hour of useful work is precious.“
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„I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.“
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„On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.“
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„Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.“

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William Lyon Mackenzie King
Author born: December 17, 1874
Author died: July 22, 1950
Nationality: Canadian
Author Profession: Politician

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