Happy Canada Day 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, Canada

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

  Jane Fonda

  World, Canada, Should

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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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• 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 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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• 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, Canada

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

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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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• 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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• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  Allan A. Lamport

  Country, Canada, Nations

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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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• The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Canada, Advantage, Huge

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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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• 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 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, Canada

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

  Jack Granatstein

  Country, Canada, Canada Funny

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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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• 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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• We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.

  Andy Barrie

  Rifles, Association, Canada

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

  Paul Henderson

  Nice, Guy, Political

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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

  Canada, Void, Royal

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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, Canada, Hell

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

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