Canada Quote by Garret Wilson

“Alberta was back again. Back to it all, to all that was warped and desultory, to the lies and evasions and small, hidden irons…

— Cora Sandel

“The political power had intervened, and such was its necessary effect. The Western farmers, who willingly took what appeared to be the advantage of…

— Isabel Paterson

“To imagine Canada as a citizen requires that you enter into he mind of someone who does not believe what you believe or share…

— Michael Ignatieff

“I am of opinion that a central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Washington had not even one pipeline into official circles of enemy capitals; they could not even estimate what the potential aggressor was thinking or…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.”

— imre kertesz

“Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.”

— Michael Ignatieff

“I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each…

— Peggy Noonan

“That Congress saw what was right, but distrusted the enlightenment of the loyal masses; but what was forborne in distrust of the people must…

— Frederick Douglass

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

— Goldwin Smith

“The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In…

— Lawrence Martin

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should…

— Ambrose Bierce