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.

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.

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.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.