Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier GCMG PC KC, known as Wilfrid Laurier, was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, in office from 11 July 1896, to 6 October 1911...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 November 1841
CountryCanada
canada nationality
Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,
judging liberty canada
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.
scotch catholic prejudice
We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.
party suicidal would-be
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
opposites people gentleman
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
canada century twentieth-century
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
divinity language english-language
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
scotch ifs
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
disrespect england titles
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.