“I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.”— Emily Murphy
“There are few, if any, Canadian problems which can be solved alone by Canadians.”— Lester B. Pearson
“In Canada, we have two official languages, and we're struggling with one of them.”— Mordecai Richler
“Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we're not British, and to the British that we're not Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians.”— Pierre Berton
“The river, not the provincial capitals, was to be the real centre of the new British America.”— Donald Creighton
“In Canada, we have a system of responsible government, which means the government is responsible to the people.”— Stephen Harper
“In those days, we finally chose to walk like men and to build a country of our own. That was the choice we made and it was a good choice.”— Hugh MacLennan