Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Governance

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was Canadian politician. Explore interesting quotes on governance.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee: 22 quotes 0 likes

“The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency.”

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865
Context: The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too much perhaps in some respects - but at all events, liberty to our hearts content.

Men

“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.”

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Hear, hear.
Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865 (Known in Ottawa as "The curse of D'Arcy Mcgee")

Question , Housing

“We have here no traditions and ancient venerable institutions; here, there are no aristocratic elements hallowed by time or bright deeds; here, every man is the first settler of the land, or removed from the settler one or two generations at the furthest; here, we have no architectural monuments calling up old associations; here, we have none of these old popular legends and stories which, in other countries, have exercised a powerful share in the government; here every man is the son of his own works.”

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Hear, hear.
Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865

Exercises , Time , Country