Quote#Truth
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because…
Quote byThomas D'Arcy McGee · 1825–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.
English (original)
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term. (Hear, hear.)
— Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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