Maurice Duplessis quotes

Maurice Duplessis quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.”
-- Maurice Duplessis

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“This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.”
-- Maurice Duplessis

Source : Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,

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“The bishops eat from my hand.”
-- Maurice Duplessis

Source : Characteristic remark, recalled in Conrad Black Duplessis (1977).

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“Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!”
-- Maurice Duplessis

Source : Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954.

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