Maurice Duplessis Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm not hard to get along with.

Jack Nicholson

#3. The bishops eat from my hand.

Maurice Duplessis

#4. Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#5. Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

Tariq Ramadan

#6. Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

Ian Martin

#7. Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

Maurice Duplessis

#8. I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

Maurice Duplessis

#9. Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt