Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
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 Image
