Maurice Duplessis Quotes

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

  Maurice Duplessis

  Responsibility, Welfare, Quebec

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• 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, Break

  Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,

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• The bishops eat from my hand.

  Maurice Duplessis

  Hands, Bishops

  Characteristic remark, recalled in Conrad Black Duplessis (1977).

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

  Maurice Duplessis

  Twenties, Fifteen, Ottawa

  Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954.

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