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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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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.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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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.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.


— William Lyon Mackenzie King


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" Viewing a glorious sunrise in Alberta in 1920 he wrote in his diary "I thought of the New Day the New Social Order. McGregor publiWilliam Lyon Mackenzie Kingd the far-sighted book Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Underlying Industrial Reconstruction a dense abstract work that went over the head of most readers but revealed the practical idealism behind King's political thinking. He never favoured socialism.

William Lyon Mackenzie King PC OM CMG (December 17 1874 – July 22 1950) also commonly known as Mackenzie King was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. A Liberal with 22 years in office he was the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history. Trained in law and social work he was keenly interested in the human condition (as a boy his motto was "Help those that cannot help themselves") and played a major role in laying the foundations of the Canadian welfare state.

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