Thomas D'Arcy McGee famous quotes

We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.
-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Moving #Patriotic #People

If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.
-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Blood #People #Desire

This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.
-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Class #Land #Aristocracy

Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.
-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Government #House #Doubt

I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.
-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#Cheer #Goes On #Unions

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.