Wilfrid Laurier

“Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.”

“I am a Liberal. I am one of those who think that everywhere in human things there are abuses to be reformed, new horizons to be opened up, and new forces to be developed.”

“We do not want to see the St. Lawrence overgrown with bulrushes, but to see it alive with the ships of all nations.”

“We are French Canadians, but our country is not confined to the province of Quebec; our country is Canada.”

“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.”

“The governing passion of my life is the love of my country.”

“The twentieth century shall be the century of Canada and of Canadian development.”

“I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. I am neither. I am a Canadian.”

“Let me tell you, my fellow countrymen, that the twentieth century shall be the century of Canada... Canada shall be the star towards which all men who love progress and freedom shall come.”

“So long as I have the honour to be the head of the government, I will be the first to cry 'Canada First.'”

“I would not have you be English or French, I would have you be Canadians.”

“Conciliation is the only policy that can make this country great.”