Maurice Duplessis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Responsibility #Welfare #Quebec
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

#Challenges #Unions #Authority
The bishops eat from my hand.
-- Maurice Duplessis

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

#Fifteen #Ottawa #Twenties

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist. Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le QuÃ©bec, alors il ne mÃ©rite tout simplement pas d'exister.
We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.

Maurice Duplessis famous quotes

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