Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Quebec does not have opinions but only sentiments"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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 the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

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

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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, Statesman

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

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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 judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"Biography should be written by an acute enemy"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"It is through this mysterious power that we, too, have our being, and we, therefore, yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people, I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"God made me an Indian"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Every seed is awakened, and all animal life"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

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