“These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.”

Statement made during sensitive diplomatic talks with the United States over a trade dispute
Donald Grant Creighton and P. B. Waite, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, the Old Chieftain (1998) p. 497

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