Wilfrid Laurier

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to…

— 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…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Wilfrid Laurier

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

— Wilfrid Laurier

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,

— Wilfrid Laurier

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here…

— Wilfrid Laurier

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

— Wilfrid Laurier

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

— Wilfrid Laurier

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation…

— Wilfrid Laurier

What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not…

— Wilfrid Laurier