Robert Bourassa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
-- Robert Bourassa

#War #Censorship #Made
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.
-- Robert Bourassa

#Tired #Police #Diplomats
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
-- Robert Bourassa

#Mind #May #Figures
English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, QuÃ©bec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.
-- Robert Bourassa

#Destiny #Forever #Development
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
-- Robert Bourassa

#Democratic
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
-- Robert Bourassa

#Giving #Political #Mind
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.
-- Robert Bourassa

#Revolution #Said #Streets
We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs
-- Robert Bourassa

#Mean #Balance #Needs

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.
If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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