{"id":1183,"date":"2021-05-06T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2021-05-01T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T02:44:41","slug":"more-quotes-from-pm-john-g-diefenbaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"More quotes from PM John G. Diefenbaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker6-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker6-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker6.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/> <\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">In completing the task of quoting from all our country\u2019s Prime Ministers \u2013 from Sir John A. to our current PM Justin Trudeau \u2013 we now return to our favourite quotable PM: John George Diefenbaker.\u00a0 Here are 10 more musings from one of Canada\u2019s most colourful leaders.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">My abiding interest is your interest; my guiding principle is the welfare of the Average Canadian. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">It is so strange that such a great honour should come to a small man like me. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">He who would be chief among you must first be servant of them all. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The prime minister has all the responsibilities and does all the joe-jobs. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I cut down on social functions. No prime minister can carry out his responsibilities when he\u2019s going to dinner every night. Dinners are not a substitute for statesmanship. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Too much and too many of the moneys extorted and squeezed from the Canadian people are being wasted by the parasites of extravagance. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The heresy of yesterday is the Liberal orthodoxy of today. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The Liberal Party has become a hodgepodge of discordance, a cacophony of political nonsense. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">No Canadian can but be proud that through the warp and woof of our constitution are the golden threads of our British heritage. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Freedom grows in the practice of good citizenship. It withers or decays in the apathy or neglect of the citizens of the country. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker5-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker5-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diefenbaker5.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chris George<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ChrisG.George@gmail.com\">ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In completing the task of quoting from all our country\u2019s Prime Ministers \u2013 from Sir John A. to our current PM Justin Trudeau \u2013 we now return to our favourite quotable PM: John George Diefenbaker.\u00a0 Here are 10 more musings from one of Canada\u2019s most colourful leaders. &nbsp; My abiding interest is your interest; my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[35,30,32,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13320,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}