Top Ten Best John A. Macdonald Quotes
Sir John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada.The Top Ten
1 As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die.
2 Anyone can support me when they think I'm right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.
3 I would be quite willing, personally, to leave that whole country a wilderness for the next half-century but I fear if Englishmen do not go there, Yankees will.
4 With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason’ which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.
5 Let us be English or let us be French... but above all let us be Canadians.
6 I say that there is a deliberate conspiracy, by force, by fraud, or by both, to force Canada into the American Union.
7 Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.
8 We must protect the rights of minorities, and the rich are always fewer in number than the poor.
9 Yes, In my Canada the rich will always be a minority.
10 ...a healthy and cordial alliance [between Britain & Canada]. Instead of looking upon us as a merely dependent colony, England will have in us a friendly nation, a subordinate but still a powerful people to stand by her in North America in peace or in war
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