Backbone Quote by John Diefenbaker Download Open image “You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.” — John Diefenbaker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backbone Bananas Canada Parliament Public life
We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas. — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
“He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.” — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past. — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Truth of life is that in difficult times, my family was my backbone. — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
