Quebec

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"This country was born Bi-lingual and it will remain Bi-lingual, or it shall end . . . We will have [the official language of this country], just as English, taught in our schools or there will be no schools at all."
Armand Lavergne. 1915
[Conservative Premier James Whitney passed Regulation 17 in 1912. It severely restricted the use of French in the schools of the province and had a devastating effect on French-English relations.]

"We are loyal to the British Crown and will defend the Empire in Canada with the last drop of our blood, but we are free and independent and no one - not Laurier or even His Majesty - has the right to ask us to go beyond our shores."
Henri Bourassa, 1911

"Those who have undertaken to bleed Canada white to uphold the forces of England and France in Europe tell us occasionally that our first line of defence is in Flanders. I say that our first line of defence is at Ottawa."
Henri Bourassa, 1916