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Civil servants should keep out of politics and politics should be kept out of the civil service

— Alexander Mackenzie

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We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Loyalty to the Queen does not require a man to bow down to her manservant, her maidservant, her ox... or her ass!

I determined to rule in broad daylight or not at all

And yet they say there is no God!

On all questions of principle, the party is not only Liberal, but clear grit in the real sense of the word.... pure sand without a particle of dirt in it!

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