Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier GCMG PC KC, known as Wilfrid Laurier, was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, in office from 11 July 1896, to 6 October 1911...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 November 1841
CountryCanada
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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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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We played a lot better today, even though it wasn't against a top opponent, ... It's a good positive step after our loss to (Taiwan).
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I prefer the Yankee dollar to the British shilling, especially when the Yankee dollar is near at hand and the British shilling so far away.
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I don't think the girls will have any problem keeping their motivation and focus, ... You always want to finish as high as possible in any tournament, whether it is on the medal side or for placement.
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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 have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister
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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 of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
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The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.