When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
~ Chief Dan George
We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
~ John G. Diefenbaker
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.
~ Lester Pearson
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
~ Hugh Maclennan
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power our oil areas and our timber limits.
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
~ Lister Sinclair
The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.
~ Ramsay Traquair
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
~ Brian Moore
Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.
~ H. T. Miller
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.
~ Michael Macklem
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
~ Robertson Davies
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
~ Northrop Frye Nobody
belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.
~ George Bowering
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
~ Henri Bourassa
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
~ John A. Macdonald
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.
~ Herman Kahn
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 you went to Detroit.
~ J. K. Galbraith
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.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
~ David Lloyd George
Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.
~ Harold A. Innis
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
~ Joe Wallace
Of course Canadians are different. There is no malice in us. We are the family doctor whom no one has called in for consultation. We are the children of the midday who see all in the clear shallow light.
~ Charles Ritchie
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent not merely these thirty-six states shall be sooner or later within the magic circle of the American union.
~ William Seward
