Charles Tupper Quotes

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
Charles Tupper

May, Country, Away

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
Charles Tupper

Time, Power, Whether

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper

Gentleman, Senseless, Spare

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
Charles Tupper

Education, Give, Why

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
Charles Tupper

Down, Away, Everybody

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
Charles Tupper

Great, Important, Political

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Charles Tupper

Justice, Children, Parents

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
Charles Tupper

Religious, Shall, Schools

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Charles Tupper

Government, Decision, Law

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.
Charles Tupper

School, Days, Church

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Statesman

Born: July 2, 1821

Died: October 30, 1915

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