Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Vincent Massey

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian politician Vincent Massey.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Charles Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Confederation. Massey was the first governor general of Canada who was born in Canada after Confederation.

Canadian - Politician | February 20, 1887 - December 30, 1967

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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.

Vincent Massey

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Vincent Massey

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

Vincent Massey

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Vincent Massey

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Vincent Massey

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.

Vincent Massey

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

Vincent Massey

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

Vincent Massey

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

Vincent Massey

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.

Vincent Massey

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?

Vincent Massey

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Vincent Massey

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.

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Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Vincent Massey

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

Vincent Massey