Canadian Quotable

"Not life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but peace, order and good government are what the national government of Canada guarantees. Under these, it is assumed, life, liberty and happiness may be achieved, but by each according to his taste."

- W.L. Morton, historian, influential paragraph based on differences between the Declaration of Independence, 1776, and the British North America Act, 1867, 'The Canadian Identity' (1961) (source: The Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations)