"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
RespectView Quote
"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.“
-Wilfrid Laurier
posted in Politics
Other Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier
Discover more inspiring quotes by Wilfrid Laurier
"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
FutureView Quote
"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
FinanceView Quote
"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
FaithView Quote
"How sweet it is!"
-Jackie Gleason
Migrate3View Quote
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Migrate3View Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
-H. Rap Brown
PoliticsView Quote
"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
-Mark Udall
PoliticsView Quote
"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
-Eric Sevareid
PoliticsView Quote
"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
-Richard Dreyfuss
PoliticsView Quote
"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
-George Crook
PoliticsView Quote
"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
PoliticsView Quote