Quote by Wilfrid Laurier
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, fo

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

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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. – Wilfrid Laurier

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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. – Wilfrid Laurier

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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. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. – B. R. Ambedkar

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain

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There is no gambling like politics. – Benjamin Disraeli

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