Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwinwas a Canadian lawyer and politician who, with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, led the first responsible ministry in Canada. "Responsible Government" marked the country's democratic independence, without a revolution, although not without violence. This achievement also included the introduction of municipal government, the introduction of a modern legal system and the Canadian Jury system, and the abolishing of imprisonment for debt. Baldwin is also noted for resisting a decades-long tradition of Orange Order terrorism of political reform in...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 May 1804
CountryCanada
My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.
I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.
It'll be a good chance to see our legacy at the U..
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
When it happened on the other relay, we were all pretty upset. But we just talked about it and we realize that things happen for a reason. We just had to come in here confident.
When a person acts only on their own Judgment they are always fearful of being wrong. . . . Not that I admire indecision on the contrary I dislike it much. I know however it is one of my own faults & it pervades more or less everything I do.