Canada Quotes

• 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, Limits

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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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• The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Travel, Sea

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• I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

  George Best

  Soccer, Missing, Ireland And The Irish

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

  Jane Fonda

  World, Should, Feels

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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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• You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

  Stephen Harper

  Ghetto, People, Migrants

  "The Report" Newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.

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

  Pierre Berton

  Making Love, Patriotism And Nationalism, Know How

  Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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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 like a loft apartment over a really great party.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Memorable, Really Great

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

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• I always thought of this as God's country.

  Jack Granatstein

  Country, Canada Funny, Canada Day

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• Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Strong, Home

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• The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Emily Carr

  Wonderful, Feels, Rugged

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

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• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  Allan A. Lamport

  Country, Nations, Canada Funny

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• After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

  Farley Mowat

  Country, Hell, Canada Funny

  Farley Mowat (1985). “My Discovery of America”, McClelland & Stewart

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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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• 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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• 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 have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

  Peter Jennings

  Effort, Abiding, Littles

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

  John Turner

  Play, House, Canada Funny

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• The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, Pussy, Ottawa

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• It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

  Kevin Myers

  Funny, Humorous, Waiting

  "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.

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