Canadian - Statesman | November 20, 1841 - February 17, 1919
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
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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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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
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He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
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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.
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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 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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