Vincent Massey: Greatness

Vincent Massey was Governor General of Canada. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.

Vincent Massey: 40 quotes0 likes

“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

Address to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, October 14, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“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)

“Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.”

Address to the Rotary Club, St. John's, Newfoundland, August 22, 1955
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)

“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”

Address at the Congress of the Association of the Universities of the British Commonwealth, Montreal, September 1, 1958
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.”

Address to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, December 18, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)