Canada Day Quotes: 15 Sayings About Canadian Independence Day. 1. 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 its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. -- June Callwood 2. Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. -- Pierre E. Trudeau 3. Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. -- Arnold Edinborough 4. 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 5. 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. -- Bill Clinton 6. 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 7. When Im in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. -- Jane Fonda 8. Patriotism is not dying for ones country, it is living for ones country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but its better. -- Agnes Macphail 9. 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. -- Pierre Trudeau 10. 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. -- Lester Pearson 11. Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed -- something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure. -- Paul Kopas 12. We only need to look at what we are really doing in the world and at home and well know what it is to be Canadian. -- Adrienne Clarkson 13. Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. -- Kim Campbell 14. Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. -- Herbert Marshall McLuhan 15. 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
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