Question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but…

If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, …

I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on

The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too much perhaps in some respects - but at all events, liberty to our hearts content.

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 …

here every man is the son of his own works.

Miracles would cease to be miracles if they were events of everyday occurrence