"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."

Politics, England, Titles

32

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Politics quotes

"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Politics, Improvement, Country, Leadership

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Politics, Evil

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

George Orwell, British Author

Politics, Terrorism, Oppression, Murder, Power

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Politics, Truth, Patriotism, Nationalism, Power

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Politics, Extreme

"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."

Ilona Andrews, American Writer

Politics, Conflict, Law, Strategy, Observation

"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Politics, Virtue, Vigilance, Government, Folly

"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."

George Orwell, British Author

Politics, War, Liberty, Truth, Press

"Politics doesn't mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Politics, Resource, Society, Power

"All authority belongs to the people."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Politics, Authority, Power, Democracy, People

Explore more quotes by Wilfrid Laurier

"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."

Nation, Country, Majority, Minority, Party

"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."

Faith, Religious, Respect

"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."

Politics, England, Titles

"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."

Finance, Government, Country, Duty

"Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments."

Politics, Opinions

"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."

Family, Children, Future, Land, Past

"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."

Politics, America, Canada, Country, England

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

Politics, English, Population

"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."

Policy, Country, Intention, Party

"The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French."

Religion, Divinity, English, Language