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Maurice Duplessis Quotes

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

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

Maurice Duplessis
Responsibility, Welfare, Quebec

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,

The bishops eat from my hand.

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

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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