Wilfrid Laurier Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Wilfrid Laurier quotes and sayings page 2 (statesman). These are the last 9 out of 19 quotes we have.
“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 make a bonfire of them.”
“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 solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.”
“For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.”
“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 to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.”
“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 in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.”
“Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.”
“The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.”
“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 a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.”
“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, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.”
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