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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
Altered
Best
Compact
Confederation
Consideration
Entered
Four
House
Judgment
Lightly
Made
Members
Nine
Originally
Provinces
Should
Submit
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Business
Englishmen
France
Passion
Political
Politics
Question
Sentiment
Sons
Us
While
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Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Absorb
Fraternity
Fusion
Union
Without
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He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
English
He
Itself
Lawrence
Occasion
Population
Presents
Ready
Throw
Whole
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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
Am
America
Between
British
Canada
Choose
Country
Crown
England
I Am
Identical
Interests
Manifest
Me
States
Subject
Those
United
United States
United States Of America
Whenever
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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
Am
Basis
Born
Declare
Ever
Faith
Here
I Am
I Was Born
Much
Organization
Parade
Political
Religious
Respect
Sentiments
Too
Too Much
Use
Which
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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.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Am
Any
Bonfire
Bring
Crown
Disrespect
England
I Am
Make
Marketplace
Our
Prepared
Quite
Them
Titles
Without
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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
Act
Canada
Cause
Claim
Future
Her
Herself
Interfere
Judge
Just
Liberty
Pleases
Reserve
Right
Shall
She
Whether
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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.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Been
Crown
Did
Gentlemen
Minister
Opposite
People
Protestant
Represent
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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.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Active
Advise
After
Attractive
Because
Become
Creatures
Dear
Dear Friend
Fancy
Friend
Intolerable
Nature
Own
People
Perhaps
Simply
Solitude
Some
Time
Were
Would
Write
You
Your
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If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Choose
French
Scotch
Were
Would
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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.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Also
Country
Duty
Finance
Government
Principle
Providing
Responsibility
Revenue
Should
Sound
Still
Those
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It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Canadians
Form
French
Party
Simply
Suicidal
Themselves
Would
Would-Be
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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
Also
Ancestors
Children
Future
Land
Look
Past
Them
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Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Does
Only
Opinions
Quebec
Sentiments
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The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Could
Divinity
English
English Language
French
Language
Well
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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.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Administration
Any
Canadians
Country
Distinctions
French
Governed
Had
Intention
Movement
Must
Never
Organise
Other
Part
Party
Policy
Questions
Simply
Those
Who
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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.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
Altar
Always
Any
Been
Canada
Family
Friends
Had
Hasten
Here
Human
Human Family
Kneel
Language
Longer
Matters
People
Races
Say
Share
Soil
Speak
Today
Two
Which
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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
Canadians
Compel
Country
Disastrous
French
House
Majority
Minority
Must
Organise
Party
Political
Political Party
Result
Soon
Themselves
Were
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Why
Would
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Wilfrid Laurier
Profession
Statesman
BirthDate
20 November, 1841
DeathDate
17 February, 1919
Country
Canada
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