It can be said with certainty that throughout mans long and troubled history we have had many great leaders. Unfortunately, of those great leaders, only a few were actually deemed to be great by the populous. The others, including this one, were only great in their own mind.
If I had influence over the minds of the people of Canada, any power over their intellect, I would leave them this legacy: ‘Whatever you do, adhere to the Union. We are a great country, and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve it; we shall sink into insignificance and adversity if we suffer it to be broken.’ Sir John A. Macdonald