Canada Quotes - Page 2

• From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, People, Effort

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• The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Advantage, Huge, Canada Funny

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• There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

  Douglas Coupland

  Men, Names, Snow

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• Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Mask, Economy

  "National Post" Newspaper, December 8, 2000.

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• I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

  Brendan Behan

  Drinking, Food, Beer

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• We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

  Pierre Trudeau

  House, Wish, Accepting

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• Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.

  Steve Miller

  Heart, Pride, May

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• It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

  Douglas Coupland

  Doe, Felt

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• The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

  Lexa Doig

  Cbc, Actors

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• Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

  John Robert Colombo

  Government, French Culture, American Culture

  "Oh Canada" l. 1 (1965)

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• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Would Be, Realizing, Quebec

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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Wally Schirra

  Dad, Airplane, Hands

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• With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

  Will Ferguson

  Void, Royal, British

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• Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

  Aga Khan IV

  Successful, Unique, Doubt

  "Canada: 'A Model for the World'". The Globe and Mail, February 02, 2002.

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• Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Humorous, Lines

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• Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

  Evan Esar

  Fall, Winter, Climate

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• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Friendly

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

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• The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

  Rick Mercer

  Giving, Allies, Sometimes

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• If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

  Stompin' Tom Connors

  Country, Thinking, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Borders

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• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Army, Government

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• I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Smart, Thinking

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• We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

  Bob Rae

  Land, People, Diversity

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• Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

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• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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