I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

Next quotes

• Charles Tupper:

  It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Ma

• Charles Tupper:

  It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we cou

• Charles Tupper:

  My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calcula

• Charles Tupper:

  That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wis

• Charles Tupper:

  That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the

• Charles Tupper:

  The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

• Charles Tupper:

  The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a

• Charles Tupper:

  You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, repres

• Robert Toombs:

  With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would hav

• Robert Toombs:

  When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concession