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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  
  • 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.

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

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.
  • I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

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

    Nice   Guy   Political  
  • 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 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.

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

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

    Country   Canada   Hell  
    Farley Mowat (1985). “My Discovery of America”, McClelland & Stewart
  • Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

  • 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.

    Dream   Jewels   People  
  • 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 started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

    Moving   Car   Vacuums  
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

    War   Safe   Canada  
  • 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  
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