243 quotes found
“Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.”
“Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.”
“The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.”
“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in it...”
“Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.”
“Canada's national bird is the grouse.”
“belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.”
“Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.”
“Let us be French as the Americans are English.”
“An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest”
“Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.”
“There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.”
“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.”
“Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.”
“I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and y...”
“Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.”
“My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.”
“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.”
