Canada Day Quotes

• Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Pierre Trudeau's farewell speech to the Liberal Party, June 14, 1984.

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• Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

  Kim Campbell

  Equality, Justice, Tolerance

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• I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

  John Diefenbaker

  Country, Freedom, Believe

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, People, Canada

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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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• When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

  Jane Fonda

  World, Canada, Should

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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

  Emily Carr

  Patriotic, Power, Sublime

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

  Tommy Douglas

  Dream, Jewels, People

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• Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Memorable, Canada

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

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• Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Today

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• Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

  Richard Patrick

  Beer, Thinking, People

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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, Canada

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• Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Identity, World

  1967 'Canada: A Borderline Case', CBC radio broadcast, 29 May.

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

  Emily Carr

  Canada, Wonderful, Feels

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

  Tommy Douglas

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ontario

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

  Mike Myers

  Essence, Canada, Transcendentalism

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

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• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Peers, Canada, Privilege

  "It's great up north" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

  Pierre Berton

  Making Love, Canada, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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• The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Trying, Canada

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• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  Allan A. Lamport

  Country, Canada, Nations

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• Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Land, People, Ego

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• I don't even know what street Canada is on.

  Al Capone

  Humorous, Canada, Streets

  "Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada". Book by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206, 2009.

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• The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Canada, Advantage, Huge

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• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  John Diefenbaker

  Ruling The World, Canada, Excited

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