Canada Quotes

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

Norman Angell

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Barbara Amiel

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

Paul Martin

Scotland is the Canada of England!

Rainn Wilson

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.

Paul Anka

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir.

Stuart Keate

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Kenneth Boulding

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

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Northrop Frye nobody

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

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

Harold A. Innis

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

Margaret Atwood

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

Evan Esar

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