Maurice Duplessis quotes
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“I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.”
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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 DuplessisSource : Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,
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“The bishops eat from my hand.”
-- Maurice DuplessisSource : 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 DuplessisSource : Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954.
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Source : "La Colère . Écrits Polémiques". Book by Pierre Bourgault, Volume 3, p. 257, 1996.
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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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