Thomas D'Arcy McGee citations

Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865
Contexte: Miracles would cease to be miracles if they were events of everyday occurrence; the very nature of wonders requires that they should be rare; and this is a miraculous and wonderful circumstance, that men at the head of the governments in five separate provinces, and men at the head of the parties opposing them, all agreed at the same time to sink party differences for the good of all, and did not shrink, at the risk of having their motives misunderstood, from associating together for the purpose of bringing about this result. (Cheers.)

Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865
Contexte: This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term. (Hear, hear.)

Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865
Contexte: I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.)

Laughter.
Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865

Cheers.
Legislative Assembly, February 16, 1865

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

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Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865

Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865

Hear, hear.
Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865