Happy Canada Day Quotes:

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.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Lying, People, Canada, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

I 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.

- John Diefenbaker

source: John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

topic: Country, Freedom, Believe, Freedom To Choose, Canada Being Great

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

- Jane Fonda

topic: World, Canada, Should, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

- Tommy Douglas

topic: Dream, Jewels, People, Canada Day, Happy Canada Day

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

- Emily Carr

source: Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

topic: Sublime, Canada, Wonderful, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

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.

- John Maynard Keynes

topic: Lakes, People, Promise, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

- Stompin' Tom Connors

topic: Country, Thinking, Canada, Canada Funny, Emigrating

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

- Robin Williams

topic: Party, Memorable, Canada, Great Party, Canada Being Great

Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

- Allan A. Lamport

topic: Country, Canada, Canada Day, Canada Funny, Happy Canada Day

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.

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: Privilege, Peers, Wealth, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Canada, Advantage, Huge, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

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

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: Country, Baseball, Rain, Hockey Player, Canada Being Great

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

- Pierre Berton

source: Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

topic: Making Love, Canada Being Great, Canada Day, Canada Funny, Happy Canada Day

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

- Rick Mercer

topic: Giving, Canada, Allies, Smack, Canada Being Great

I always thought of this as God's country.

- Jack Granatstein

topic: Country, Canada, Canada Day, Canada Funny, Happy Canada Day

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

topic: Trying, Disappear, Theme, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

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.

- June Callwood

source: June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Humorous, Fall, Eagles, Beavers, Testicles

We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.

- Andy Barrie

topic: Rifles, Association, Canada, National Identity, Canada Being Great

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: House, Wish, Canada, Canada Day, Happy Canada Day

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.

- Tommy Douglas

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

topic: Inspirational, Humorous, Cows, Maritime, Canada Day

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

- Al Capone

topic: Humorous, Canada, Streets, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

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

- Paul Henderson

topic: Nice, Guy, Political, Canada Day, Canada Funny

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.

- Will Ferguson

topic: Royal, Void, British, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

- Farley Mowat

source: Farley Mowat (1985). “My Discovery of America”, McClelland & Stewart

topic: Country, Canada, Hell, Canada Day, Canada Funny

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

- Shiv Khera

topic: Moving, Car, Drs, Cleaners, Canada Day

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

- Peter Jennings

topic: Effort, Littles, Canada, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

- Winston Churchill

topic: World, Canada, Canada Funny, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: War, Safe, Canada, Canada Day, Happy Canada Day

I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

- John Diefenbaker

topic: Ruling The World, World, Excited, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

- Richard Patrick

topic: Beer, Thinking, People, Hysterically Funny, Canada Day

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

- John Turner

topic: Play, House, Canada, Canada Day, Canada Funny

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Land, People, Ego, Canada Being Great, Canada Day

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.

- Will Ferguson

topic: Humorous, Self, Stopping, National Identity, Canada Being Great

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

- Kevin Myers

source: "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.

topic: Humorous, Waiting, Selfless, Canada Day, Happy Canada Day

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Country, Canada Being Great, Canada Day