Vincent Massey: Greatness

Vincent Massey was Governor General of Canada. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
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“History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.”

Address to the Women's Canadian Club, Montreal, Quebec, March 26, 1958
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!”

Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”

Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.”

Address at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, March 7, 1953
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)