Protestants Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier

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

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

— Wilfrid Laurier

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

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

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

— Wilfrid Laurier

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

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

— Wilfrid Laurier

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

— Wilfrid Laurier

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

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

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

— Wilfrid Laurier

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