I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your… — 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
