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

- John A. Macdonald

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

- John A. Macdonald

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

- 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 …

- John A. Macdonald

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

- John A. Macdonald

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

- John A. Macdonald

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

- 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…

- 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.

- John A. Macdonald