5 Quotes by William Lyon Mackenzie

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

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

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

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.

Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.