William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie. The Mackenzie King Diaries. 26 Aug. 1936, Library and Archives Canada.
New York took extensive measures to reduce greenhouse gasses, prohibit smoking anywhere in the city and improve the quality of air as well as spending public funds for many other health prevention initiatives. The result was that New Yorker’s actually live longer than citizens of other states and cities.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
Ironically, he had to drop out of the presidential nomination race because he was immersed in a personal scandal that erupted. He could not cope with it. Had he taken his own advice and dealt with it BEFORE the crises erupted, he might have weathered the storm. But he waited and was caught flat-footed.
In his administration the public was not willing to spend the money to arm for the Fascist rise and aggression in Europe in the far East. It seems to be a characteristic of the American people whether the thread comes from a foreign military power, a massive dust bowl erosion, the rise of Communism or global warming. Americans are galvanized into action when the problem becomes critical but until then we are passive.
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William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC, commonly known as Mackenzie King, was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921–1926, 1926–1930 and 1935–1948. A Liberal, he was the dominant politician in Canada during the interwar period from the 1920s through the 1940s. He is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Second World War (1939–1945) when he mobilized Canadian money, supplies and volunteers to support Britain while boosting the economy and maintaining morale on the home front. With a total of 21 years and 154 days in office, he remains the longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history.
