Jack Granatstein quotes

“I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,”
-- Jack Granatstein

#Thinking Quotes #Matter Quotes #Historian Quotes

“I always thought of this as God's country.”
-- Jack Granatstein

#Country Quotes #Canada Quotes

“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 Granatstein

#Country Quotes #Two Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.”

“When all else fails, complicate matters”

“Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.”

“Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.”

“Study men, not historians.”