Famous quotes containing the words tupper, prime, minister and/or canada:
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”
—Martin Tupper (18101889)
“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to its power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)