If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch. Wilfrid Laurier More Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier More Quotes From 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 look future children past 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. Wilfrid Laurier friends family today people Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion. Wilfrid Laurier union without fraternity fusion 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 questions never party country He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. Wilfrid Laurier english he population ready 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 you nature time people 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 result political house country