Stompin' Tom Connors Quotes

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

The country is the people.

I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country that's so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain't even got snow. We do everything in extreme.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

… we need to know ourselves, not only our own little group or our own little part of the country, but the country as a whole and all its people. This will inspire in us an even greater fervor of spirit to see our country attain the ideals we have always cherished.

Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian.

I want a great country. I want people happy.

My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.

Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.

I wanted to make America proud.

There's nothing wrong with loving your country. There's nothing wrong with caring about who gets into your country. There's nothing wrong about wanting your country to be great. There's nothing wrong with thinking that the country comes before the world. There's nothing wrong at all, and that's been wrong in the past and we're gonna make it right. We're gonna love America, we're gonna unify, we're gonna make America great again.

You can't let the debate of the day mask the fact that Canadians care deeply in their country. Including Quebecers - from all origins and language. Quebecers care deeply about their country. The idea of Canada and its unity is not something that is set in stone forever, or that is solved. We need to always work towards building this country.