Buchan, John, Sir(Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield)

Scottish author and politician

wrote novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" 1915

governor-general of Canada 1935-1940

• "We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
• "I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest."
• "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."