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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.

    Lakes   People   Promise  
  • I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

    Country   Canada   Looks  
  • I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

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

    Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
  • 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.

  • 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 George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade
  • Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  • Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

    Land   People   Ego  
  • Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.

  • The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

    Canada   Advantage   Huge  
  • We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

    Land   People   Diversity  
  • Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

    Hockey   Winter   Nhl  
  • There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

    Men   Names   Snow  
  • Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

  • 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.

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

    Canada   Void   Royal  
  • 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.

    Strong   Pride   Past  
  • Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

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

    Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers
  • Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

    Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.
  • Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

  • 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.

    Lying   People   Canada  
  • I don't even know what street Canada is on.

    "Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada". Book by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206, 2009.
  • 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.

    Country   Struggle   Home  
  • 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 (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers
  • I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

    "Vancouver Hockey Riot: Blame Canada!". ew.com. June 16, 2011.
  • 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.

    Funny   Humorous   Home  
  • The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

    Giving   Allies   Canada  
  • Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.

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