Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

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.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

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.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

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

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

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.

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.