"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four……" — Wilfrid Laurier
"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 the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered."
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Wilfrid Laurier
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21 Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier has 21 quotes on this site.
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Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,
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It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
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Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
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The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
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Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to…
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I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite…
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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith…
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
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I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our…
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but…
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If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
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It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but…
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In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from…
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You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not…
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Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered…
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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence…
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I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
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Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole,…
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Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I…
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I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible…
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Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
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Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to…
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