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Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

Wilfrid Laurier quotes

Canadian Statesman November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919

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Wilfrid Laurier quote: "Let your convictions be always calm, serene and superior to..."
Let your convictions be always calm, serene and superior to the inevitable trials of life. - Sir Wilfrid Laurier 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. Wilfrid Laurier
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. 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. Wilfrid Laurier
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. Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier quote: "For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion;..."
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier quote: "The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language..."
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. Wilfrid Laurier
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 them look also to the land of their children. Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier quote: "He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the..."
He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. Wilfrid Laurier
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. Wilfrid Laurier
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. Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier quote: "It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a..."
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. Wilfrid Laurier
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 just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act. Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier quote: "If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch."
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch. Wilfrid Laurier
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. Wilfrid Laurier

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