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.
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian! - John A. Macdonald
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
- John A. Macdonald
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone. - John A. Macdonald
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. - John A. Macdonald
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
Politics is a game requiring great coolness. - John A. Macdonald
Politics is a game requiring great coolness.
Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet. - John A. Macdonald
Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong. - John A. Macdonald
Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.
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 … - John A. Macdonald
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 …
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice. - John A. Macdonald
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislat… - John A. Macdonald
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislat…
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