Quotes

Time for a few quotes that have bearing on Canada's situation vis-a-vis (OOOO how pretentious a word!) the U.S. of A...


"Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren't British, and to the British that we aren't Americans that we haven't had time to become Canadians."
-- Helen Gordon McPherson

The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.
-- June Callwood

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States.
-- J. Bartlett Brebner (1895 - 1957) professor of history, Columbia University

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte