Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
- Marshall McLuhan
Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from wewe and we're different people because of you. Living inayofuata to wewe 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 kwa 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.
- Pierre Trudeau
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.
- Peter Jennings
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
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I think every Canadian should have a map of Canada in his au her house. It should be displayed in a place where one can sit and contemplate the wonderful vastness of this land. As Canadians we are continuously groping for an identity and a sense of upendo for our nation. We grapple with the concept, find it somewhat distasteful and leave it for another day. We find American flag waving, hand over moyo while belting out Oh, say, can wewe see... too much and avoid doing the same. We admire their national spirit, but Canadians are, in contrast, understated. To understand the identity that exists in our hearts think of our sweepingly majestic home, its quiet, serene beauty. A beauty recognizable to us all. We are proud of this nation and of who we are. We just don't say it. It's like the map. It just sits there on the ukuta displaying the lines of our coasts, the bulk of our waterways, and the breadth of our northern territories. Surveying all of this leaves me in awe. It brings a tear to my eye...O Canada...
- Debora O'Neil
Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with zaidi 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 au in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.
- Lester Pearson
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.
- Sir Winston Churchill
It is the task of the rising generation of Canadians to create a new confidence and a new sense of cultural and civic duty in Canada. Unless we achieve some success on this front, and I believe we are beginning to do so, the very real attractions of the vigorous society to the South of us may attract too many of our able people. Then the human resources and skills required to shape and direct a complex industrial economy will simply not be available to us in Canada.
- Mitchell Sharp
As we enter our centennial mwaka we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
- Lester Pearson
He shall have dominion also from sea unto sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
- Psalm 72
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
- Farley Mowat
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
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that wewe were born into, some great rugged power that wewe are a part of.
- Emily Carr
In a world darkened kwa ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.
- Bill Clinton
Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.
- Helen Gordon McPherson
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
- Pierre Trudeau
Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not too state directed - something like a bia commercial au the death of a significant Canadian figure.
- Paul Kopas
Vive la Canada. This country is not for sale.
- Don Sweet
We are lucky to live in a country as rich as ours. To break it apart would be asinine in the highest degree.
- Barry Gerding
I don't even know what mitaani, mtaa Canada is on.
- Al Capone
I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
- John Diefenbaker
God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them!
- Anonymous
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, au free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
- John Diefenbaker (From the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960.)
We'll explain the appeal of curling to wewe if wewe explain the appeal of the National bunduki Association to us.
- Andy Barrie
In only a century and a quarter since Confederation, Canadians have shaped out of the North American wilderness one of the most privileged societies on the face of the earth. Ranking among the seven most prosperous nations in the world, Canada is rich not only in the abundance of our resources and the magnificence of our land, but also in the diversity and the character of our people. We have long been known as one of the most tolerant, progressive, innovative, caring and peaceful societies in existence.
- The Will of a Nation: Awakening the Canadian Spirit kwa George Radwanski & Julia Luttrell
When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
- Jane Fonda
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
wewe Canadians have aliyopewa us such hope to carry on. We admire your bravery wewe are the neighbour of such a rich, powerful country, and yet wewe don't mind clashing with them. Well, that gives us zaidi confidence.
- Pedro Gutierrez
I am deeply moved kwa the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my hivi karibuni visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey nyumbani and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Canada is probably the most free country in the world where a man still has room to breathe, to spread out, to songesha forward, to songesha out, an open country with an open frontier. Canada has created harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups, and it must take this experience to the world because there is yet to be such an example of harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups.
- Valentyn Moroz
I read and learned and fretted zaidi 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 manifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.
- Will Ferguson
Canada is one of the planet's most comfortable, and caring, societies. The United Nations Human Development Index cited the country as the most desirable place in the world to live. This mwaka a World Bank study named Canada the globe's sekunde wealthiest society after Australia.
- Time magazine
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shati and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish dawati over a Persian rug, after coming nyumbani in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.
- Anonymous
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 au to stand under its own falling trees.
- June Callwood
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole kwa the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
- Will Ferguson
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.
- Bob Rae
wewe look at the history -- the aboriginal people welcomed the first settlers here with open arms, fed us and took care of us ... that continues today, we welcome people from all nations to come in and share.
- Peter Stoffer
We are tremendously proud of our cultures, heritage and achievements and we will continue to break new ground. I am proud to be a Canadian and I hope wewe are too.
- Philip K. Lee
I always thought of this as God's country.
- Jack Granatstein
As far as I'm concerned, I wouldn't want to go to any other country. It's good enough here.
- Orviel Kruse
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
- Pierre Trudeau
With au without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. au French. au Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
- Will Ferguson
We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated kwa any other country.
- John G. Diefenbaker
If wewe don't think that your country should come before yourself, wewe can better serve your country kwa livin' someplace else.
- Stompin' Tom Connors
There are zaidi left-handed Mormon streakers in the West than there are western separatists.
- Mel Hurtig
I just think wewe Westerners should take over this country if wewe are so smart.
- Pierre Trudeau
The crisis of Canada today is the combination of economic problems facing us and the increasing impotency of governments that lack either the will au the resources to do much about it. The tragedy of Canada today is that just when we need a country that's pulling together in common cause, we have one that keeps finding new ways to pull itself apart.
- Angus Reid
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations; it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
- Stuart Keate
Canada has never been a melting-pot; zaidi like a tossed salad.
- Arnold Edinborough
I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.
- John Turner
It's going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it.
- Andrew H. Malcom
For many years Canada has held an obscure place among the countries of the globe. Our borders have been pictured as the abode of perpetual snows, and our people as indifferent, easy-going, indolent. But change is taking place.
- Charles R. Tuttle
Canada is an interesting place; the rest of the world thinks so, even if Canadians don't.
- Terence M. Green
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 Elliott Trudeau
Canadians, like their historians, have spent too much time remembering conflicts, crises, and failures. They forgot the great, quiet continuity of life in a vast and generous land. A cautious people learns from its past; a sensible people can face its future. Canadians, on the whole, are both.
- Desmond Morton
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.
- Marshall McLuhan
Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.
- Paul Henderson
The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.
- Paul Hellyer
Give your head a shake. This is the greatest country in the world.
- Curtis Sanderson (From the Rant & Roar Forums)
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean au narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
- Lester Pearson
It's never felt zaidi Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
- Douglas Coupland
Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.
- Steve Miller
I wouldn't let someone take my Canadian citizenship from me for anything.
- Jim Kale
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make upendo in a canoe.
- Pierre Berton
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
- John A. Macdonald
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
- Douglas Coupland
Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.
- Richard Patrick
A Canadian is merely an unarmed American with health care.
- John Wing
The Canadian military is like Switzerland's. Without the knife.
- John Wing
Some Americans ruin it for other Americans. wewe know these Americans: "Oh, we're the best country on earth, and we do this better, and we do that better, and we're better at this than anybody else. Why does anyone want to kill us?" I don't understand. Cause Canadians, we're not like that. We're better than that.
- Glen Foster
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. Like: "Keep it down, eh?"
- Robin Williams
Canadian money is also called the loony. How can wewe take an economic crisis seriously?
- Robin Williams
It's like the twinkie of Canadian money. It has this special filling inside.
- Dave Brozik, commenting on the two dollar coin.
Canada is a nation of people who came from somewhere else.
- Microsoft Encarta
Canada is like your attic, wewe forget that it's up there, but when wewe go, it's like "Oh man, look at all this great stuff!"
- Unknown
Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.
- Mark Twain
Above everything, we are Canadian
- Sir George Etienne Cartier
I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
- Jon Stewart
I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."
- Jon Stewart
Canada is like a bird, it likes to soar freely.
- Unknown
It is a peaceful, nice country with lots of empty space, a boring government that never faces serious crises, a minimal trade partner and the chanzo of singers with strange accents.
- John Dickinson
