"Two races share today the soil of Canada.……" — 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 longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
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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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More Altars Quotes
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes…
— William Hazlitt
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace…
— Peter Chrysologus
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If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be…
— David Brewster
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of…
— Adolf Hitler
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest,…
— Myrtle Reed
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;…
— Edmund Burke
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The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across…
— Wess Stafford
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The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling…
— Luther Standing Bear
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