John MacDonald Quotes
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.
Pope, Joseph. Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald. Vol. 1, J. Durie & Son, 1894.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald GCB PC QC was the first prime minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891). The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system.