"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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"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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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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