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Maurice Duplessis Quotes

1890–1959 Canada

Maurice Duplessis (born April 20, 1890, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada; died September 7, 1959, Schefferville, Québec, Canada); controversial Premier of Québec from 1936 to 1940 and 1944 to 1959.

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Also known as: Duplessis, Maurice

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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!

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maurice Duplessis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.