“We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people””
Quotes by Alexander Mackenzie
“One evening, he was in the modernist white restaurant above the National Portrait Gallery. Through the bank of windows was a night-time cityscape of domes and belfries. Big Ben was in the middle distance. Poking up in the foreground was Nelson on his column. James could see the back of his stone tricorn hat and his stone epaulettes. He went closer and peered down into the bright canyon of Whitehall, where he could see the entrance to DFID. A formula offered itself: I’ve made it from down there to up here. But actually, anyone could come to this restaurant. It wasn’t even very good.””
Alexander MackenzieAlexander Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian politician and the second Prime Minister of Canada, serving from 1873 to 1878. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1842, where he became involved i...