10 Quotes by John A. Macdonald

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born – a British subject I will die. 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.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don’t like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.