243 quotes found
“Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.”
“Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.”
“I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.”
“The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.”
“If ever Confederation fails it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.”
“When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.”
“We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.”
“We often say that we fear no invasion from the south but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and o...”
“The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.”
“Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.”
“Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.”
“Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.”
“Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.”
“belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.”
“Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.”
“You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia.”
“You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.”
“Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.”
“Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.”
“Of course Canadians are different. There is no malice in us. We are the family doctor whom no one has called in for consultation. We are the children of the midday who see all in the clear shallow ...”
