Canada Quote by Michael Ignatieff

“The Canada to which we really do owe loyalty is the Canada that we have failed to create.”

— Northrop Frye

“I predict that a century hence the Canadian people will be the noblest specimens of humanity on the face of the earth.”

— Rev. John Bredin

“There are even more galvanizing aspects to the Canadian psyche than mere reticence. There is the collective fear, at least when I was growing…

— David Rakoff

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada…

— Justin Trudeau

And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one -…

— Jack Layton

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…

— Lester B Pearson

English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able…

— Robert Bourassa

“We have inherited an easy life in Canada. A life of calm. It is freedom of a lazy sort, a freedom so pervasive we…

— Will Ferguson

“Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North star”

— Martin Luther King Jr

Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken,…

— Robertson Davies

“No wonder the only Canadians anyone's ever heard of are the ones who have gotten the hell out. Anyone with talent who stayed would…

— Maria Semple

“I speak of a Canada where men and women of aboriginal ancestry, of French and British heritage, of the diverse cultures of the world,…

— Pierre Trudeau