Canada Being Great Quotes

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

  Al Capone

  Humorous, Canada, Streets

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

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• 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 Diefenbaker

  Country, Freedom, Believe

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• 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

  Giving, Allies, Canada

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• Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

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• The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Canada, Advantage, Huge

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

  Pierre Berton

  Making Love, Canada, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Pierre Trudeau's farewell speech to the Liberal Party, June 14, 1984.

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• 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.

  Will Ferguson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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• 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 by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

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

  Emily Carr

  Canada, Wonderful, Feels

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• 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 Trudeau

  Peers, Canada, Privilege

  "It's great up north" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• 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.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

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

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• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

  Winston Churchill

  World, Canada, Canada Funny

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• 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

  Patriotic, Power, Sublime

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Canada, Looks

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• 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

  Humorous, Trying, Canada

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• When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

  Jane Fonda

  World, Canada, Should

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• 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

  Land, People, Diversity

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• 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.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Land, People, Ego

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Struggle, Home

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• 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

  Sleep, Elephants, Friendly

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

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• 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

  Funny, Hilarious, Country

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

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• 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.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Mirrors

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

  Robin Williams

  Economic, Crisis, Economic Crisis

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