Canada Quotes

Canada is an interesting place, the rest of the world thinks so, even if Canadians don't.

Terence M. Green

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

V. S. Pritchett

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

Lister Sinclair

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlet Brebner

America's attic.

Patrick Anderson

Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad.

Arnold Edinborough

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Richard Benner

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

Pierre E. Trudeau

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.

Winston Churchill

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Stuart Keate

Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed - something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure.

Paul Kopas

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

Richard Staines

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

Paul Henderson

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

Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity.

Jack Granetstein

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

The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet.

Alistair Horne

In a world darkened by 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

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 was built on dead beavers.

Margaret Atwood

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

Irving Layton

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