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Wilfrid Laurier
 
Date of birth: 20 November 1841
Date of death: 17 February 1919
Country Of Origin: Canada
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" A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" Blake will neither lead nor be led. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" 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. "

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" For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. "

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" Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. "

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" Gentlemen, I am within the lines of Torres Vedras. I will get out of them when it suits me, and not before. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. "

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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. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" 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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" 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. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" 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. "

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" I denounce the policy of protection as bondage - yea, bondage; and I refer to bondage in the same manner in which American slavery was bondage. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" 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. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" I prefer the Yankee dollar to the British shilling, especially when the Yankee dollar is near at hand and the British shilling so far away. "

Wilfrid Laurier
" I regret your going. We need a man like you at Ottawa, though I should not want two. "

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