The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share
