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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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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
"How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!"
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
"If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple."
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"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other."
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