Rene Levesque Quotes

Where the French Canadian nation finds its freedom, that too will be its homeland.

So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Levesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Montreal is more Canadian and more British than Toronto. Toronto is more Canadian and more British than Winnipeg. Why? Because at Quebec thanks to the preponderance of the French language, you are better protected from the American invasion ...

The Quebec government ought to require respect by law for the French language in the names of companies and in their advertising ... Manufacturers and big trading companies must at some time rather appear before the government to be registered or to be legally recognized. That's the time the government should lie in wait for them. Give yourselves French names, advertise yourselves in French, " we don't know you," it can say.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. In Quebec I am branded as a Jingo, and in Ontario as a separatist. In Quebec I am attacked is an imperialists, and in Ontario as an anti-imperialist. I am neither. I am a Canadian.

Quebec has no opinions, only emotions.

English-speaking Canada, far from stifling Quebec, has acted...as a committed partner, a buffer, shielding its culture from the rest of an English-speaking continent that Quebecers perceive as a threatening force.

I did hold the language laws of Quebec up to ridicule because they are officious and ridiculous.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

I want to govern provincially no more. I want national independence … I took time for this decision because I know all the perils of this mission. I want to ask you to struggle also in order that our country can be born in the near future

There was a time when all efforts were made to erase the word "Bangla" from this land and its map. The existence of the word "Bangla" was found nowhere except in the term Bay of Bengal. I on behalf of Pakistan announce today that this land will be called "Bangladesh" instead of East Pakistan

I owe everything to France.

I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

I never really had a strong accent.

I am against the Islamisation of France.

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.

I was France.

A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

We're seeking sovereignty because it is absolutely essential, like the ripening of the fruit, like reaching adulthood, like the opening of river into the ocean. It is necessary because we are a people.