John A. Macdonald Quotes

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

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

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 legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

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.