Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

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

— Pierre Trudeau

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

— Paul Henderson

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner…

— Will Ferguson

I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

— John Diefenbaker

I always thought of this as God's country.

— Jack Granatstein

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

— Farley Mowat

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

— Winston Churchill

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

— Pierre Berton

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

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

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

— Andy Barrie

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

— John Turner

Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not…

— John Maynard Keynes