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Charles Vincent Massey, PC, CC, CH war ein kanadischer Diplomat und Politiker. Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Tätigkeit als Botschafter war er von 1952 bis 1959 der 18. Generalgouverneur von Kanada und der erste Kanadier, der dieses Amt innehatte. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Februar 1887 – 30. Dezember 1967
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“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

Address to the Women's Canadian Club, Montreal, Quebec, March 26, 1958
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!”

Vincent Massey

Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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

Vincent Massey

Address at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, December 6, 1955
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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

Vincent Massey

Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“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

Address on the occasion of the Centenary of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, April 17, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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

Vincent Massey

Address at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, March 7, 1953
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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

Vincent Massey

Address to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, December 18, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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

Vincent Massey

Address at the Centenary Dinner of University College, Toronto, October 16, 1953
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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

Vincent Massey

Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“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

Address at the Convocation of the University of British Columbia, May 18, 1954
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“We must pass through the barriers of language and race, of geography and religion, of custom and tradition and we must build on a common foundation.”

Vincent Massey

Address at a Citizenship Ceremony, Winnipeg Manitoba, May 20, 1955
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“It is worthy of notice that many of this generation, fed on text-books, on anthologies and on abstracts, cannot read.”

Vincent Massey

Address at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, March 7, 1953
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“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

Address to the Women's Canadian Club, Montreal, Quebec, March 26, 1958
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“This visit "north of 60" was to complete what might be called at least a preliminary survey. I arrived here and realized that my survey had hardly begun.”

Vincent Massey

Address to the Board of Trade, Yellowknife, North West Territories, February 25, 1953
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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