The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. - Vincent Massey

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.