Top 32 Diefenbaker Quotes
#1. The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
Brian Mulroney
#2. I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.
John Diefenbaker
#3. That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
John Diefenbaker
#4. You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
John Diefenbaker
#5. I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.
John Diefenbaker
#6. I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!
John Diefenbaker
#7. One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.
John Diefenbaker
#8. When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
John Diefenbaker
#9. Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.
John Diefenbaker
#10. In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
John Diefenbaker
#11. We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage ... w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.
John Diefenbaker
#13. But how many times can you upset someone and still return to normal? Isn't there a point when the person gives up on you?
Maria V. Snyder
#14. Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.
Mark Simpson
#15. I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
John Diefenbaker
#16. I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Paul McCartney
#17. They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
John Diefenbaker
#20. To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . .
Will Durant
#21. He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.
John G. Diefenbaker
#22. I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John G. Diefenbaker
#23. The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
John G. Diefenbaker
#25. Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent ... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
John G. Diefenbaker
#26. There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.
John Diefenbaker
#29. I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.
John Diefenbaker
#31. Vich Deelish My heart is in the heart of my son And my life is in his life surely A man can be twice young In the life of his sons only.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world.
Elise Forier Edie
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