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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.

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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.

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Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

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Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Statesman

Born: November 20th, 1841

Died: February 17th, 1919

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