John A. Macdonald

"I must have another $10,000. Will be the last time of calling. Do not fail me. Answer today."

"Anyone can support me when they think I'm right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong."

"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 sordi…"

"I would be quite willing, personally, to leave that whole country a wilderness for the next half-century but I fear if Englishmen do not go there, Yankees will."

"The scheme as a whole has met with almost universal approval."

"I say that there is a deliberate conspiracy, by force, by fraud, or by both, to force Canada into the American Union."

"He has no British instincts or British feelings or aspirations."

"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…"