Top 33 John G Diefenbaker Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About John G Diefenbaker

#1. I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

#2. I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

John Diefenbaker

#3. But it is these deaths - the killings in Ferguson and Beavercreek and beyond - that commemorate the unfinished, perhaps unending, struggle to assert black humanity in a country built on its denial.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

#4. In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

John Diefenbaker

#5. Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#6. That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

John Diefenbaker

#7. That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.

Marian Keyes

#8. You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

John Diefenbaker

#9. I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.

John Diefenbaker

#10. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Annie Lennox

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

John Diefenbaker

#14. I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

John Diefenbaker

#15. 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

#16. I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

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#17. I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

John Diefenbaker

#18. People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

James St. James

#19. He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.

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#20. 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

#21. If you're going to do something in your life do it 100%. Don't question it just go after it. If you don't believe in it or you're not honest with yourself it's not going to work and that's just something that I learned over the years.

Kevin Martin

#22. You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

Eike Batista

#23. I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

Ken Livingstone

#24. 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. Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#26. 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