All Quotes

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. ”

Every writer is a writer of the generation before. ”

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. ”

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

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. ”

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

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

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. ”