John A. Macdonald: Quotes about people

John A. Macdonald was 1st Prime Minister of Canada. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.”

John A. Macdonald

Responding to a heckler. (from John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn).
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People

“He hoped that Britain and Canada would have "a healthy and cordial alliance. Instead of looking upon us as a merely dependent colony, England will have in us a friendly nation, a subordinate but still a powerful people to stand by her in North America in peace or in war."”

John A. Macdonald

1865, quoted on page 394 of Canadian Constitutional Development: Shown by Selected Speeches and Dispatches, with Introductions and Explanatory Notes https://books.google.ca/books?id=LRukOUFKGnkC&pg=PA394 published 1907
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War , People , Peace , Hope

“As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason’ which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.”

John A. Macdonald

February 3, 1891 as the 1891 election was called, fought largely over the issue of free trade with the United States; reported at Historic Canada http://www.histori.ca/prodev/article.do;jsessionid=8D3831D48EE489EBCF46813C8427E685.tomcat1?id=15356.
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People , Effort