"I
read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors
customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors;
but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this
because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer
to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the
same way, in the United States, Canadians are not
'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction
illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our
two countries."
"On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Visit to Quebec, July 31, 1936
(Photo President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936 Pierce Arrow Convertible, in Quebec, Canada, August, 1936)
"On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Visit to Quebec, July 31, 1936
(Photo President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936 Pierce Arrow Convertible, in Quebec, Canada, August, 1936)
