9 Wilfrid Laurier Quotes for You to Enjoy

Wilfrid Laurier

Canadian Statesman

Born: Nov 20, 1841

Died: Feb 17, 1919

Country French Future Party People Political

Related authors: Alexander Mackenzie Brian Mulroney Charles Tupper Jean Chretien John Turner Kim Campbell Pierre Trudeau

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

Today Family People Speak Language Soil Matters Say Hasten Had Kneel Share Longer Altar Always Been Friends Canada Any Human Which Human Family Races Here Two

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 Ancestors Look Also Children Them Land

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

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

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

Party Would Would-Be Simply French Canadians Form Themselves Suicidal

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 Judgment Submit Nine Consideration Entered Members Lightly House Altered Provinces Confederation Should Who Compact Originally Four

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

Language Could Divinity French Well English English Language

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