Governors General of Canada/governors General of New France 1663-1760

Famous quotes containing the words governors, general, canada and/or france:

    I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.
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    No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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    I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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    It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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