{"id":1126,"date":"2025-06-28T19:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:46:25","slug":"quotes-on-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on our country Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By George Journal<\/em>\u00a0presents some of our favourite quotes on Canada and Canucks &#8211; so you might spice up your toasts on Canada Day! Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. &#8212; Pierre Burton<\/li>\n<li>We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren&#8217;t but only weak ones about who we are. We&#8217;re passionate about what we don&#8217;t want to become but oddly passive about what we should be. &#8212; John Cruickshank (in McLean&#8217;s Magazine)<\/li>\n<li>There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its verile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. &#8212; Sir Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>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. &#8212; U.S. President Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. &#8212; J. Bartlett Brebner<\/li>\n<li>Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour &#8211; we&#8217;re more like celery as a flavour. &#8212; Mike Myers<\/li>\n<li>Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. &#8212; Pierre Trudeau<\/li>\n<li>The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. &#8211; Marshall McLuhan<\/li>\n<li>Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. &#8212; P. J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/li>\n<li>Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it&#8217;s doing in the Maritimes. &#8212; Tommy Douglas<\/li>\n<li>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&#8217;s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. &#8212; June Callwood<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t believe your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin&#8217; someplace else. &#8212; Stompin&#8217; Tom Connors<\/li>\n<li>We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country. &#8212; John G. Diefenbaker<\/li>\n<li>In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations, it&#8217;s cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. &#8212; Stuart Keate<\/li>\n<li>Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. &#8212; Arnold Edinborough<\/li>\n<li>Canada: A few acres of snow. &#8212; Voltaire<\/li>\n<li>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. &#8212; Desmond Morton<\/li>\n<li>Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country&#8217;s French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. &#8212; Jack Granetstein<\/li>\n<li>Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian. &#8212; Richard Staines<\/li>\n<li>Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. &#8212; Barbara Amiel<br \/>\nI 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. &#8212; John Diefenbaker (From the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960)<\/li>\n<li>When I&#8217;m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. &#8212; Jane Fonda<\/li>\n<li>Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. &#8212; Sir Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don&#8217;t think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. &#8212; Stephen Harper<\/li>\n<li>Canada was built on dead beavers. &#8212; Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Journal\u00a0presents some of our favourite quotes on Canada and Canucks &#8211; so you might spice up your toasts on Canada Day! Cheers! &nbsp; A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. &#8212; Pierre Burton We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. 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