Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

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• Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,
• It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
• Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
• The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
• Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party,…
• I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to…
• I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born…
• For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
• I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and…
• What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the…
• If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
• It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of…
• The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.
• I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do…
• Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to…
• I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to…
• He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
• 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…
• Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let…
• This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part…

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