Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

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

Best, Made, House

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
Wilfrid Laurier

Country, America, Between

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

Future, Past, Children

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.
Wilfrid Laurier

Opposite, Gentlemen, Crown

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
Wilfrid Laurier

Opinions, Sentiments, Quebec

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Wilfrid Laurier

Politics, Business, Political

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
Wilfrid Laurier

Union, Fraternity, Fusion

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
Wilfrid Laurier

Whole, Ready, English

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

Faith, Respect, Political

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.
Wilfrid Laurier

Disrespect, Quite, Bring

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

Future, Judge, Liberty

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

Nature, Time, Friend

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
Wilfrid Laurier

Choose, Scotch, 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.
Wilfrid Laurier

Government, Finance, Country

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
Wilfrid Laurier

Themselves, Party, Simply

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
Wilfrid Laurier

Language, English, Divinity

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

Country, Questions, Party

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

Family, Today, Human

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

Political, Country, Why

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Statesman

Born: November 20, 1841

Died: February 17, 1919

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