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Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
Oct 1, 2025
If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.
Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.
I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.
Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
I always thought of this as God's country.
Canada is the greatest nation in this country.
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.
I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
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.
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.
When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
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.
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world
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.
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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.
The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.
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