Canada Funny Quotes - Page 2

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

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Smart, Thinking

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• I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Struggle, Home

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• I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

  Will Ferguson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

  Winston Churchill

  World, Canada, Canada Being Great

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

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• Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Lakes, People, Promise

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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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• 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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• Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

  Paul Henderson

  Nice, Guy, Political

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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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• I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

  John Turner

  Play, House, Canada

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