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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Wilfrid Laurier
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About Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Wilfrid LaurierFor us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
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.
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 l…
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.