A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together..

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 the….

The twentieth century belongs to Canada..

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 s….

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 interest….

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 t….

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 ….

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 judgm….

We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let i….

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings..

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

What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment….

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

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves..

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one a….

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of En….

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political party, they would compel ….

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 ….

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments..

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch..

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality..