"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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"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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