Maurice L. Duplessis Quotes

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

I'm all about penalizing. I've got no issue with penalizing people who are taking over their allotted time.

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

I would expect the support of the party no matter what happens... even if I were to kill my grandmother with an axe.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.

The [Russian] Communist Party decided that policy. As a good communist, I have to go along.

We must remember that a verdict of expulsion in disgrace from the Communist Party is considered by a class conscious worker as worse than death at the hands of the bourgeois oppressors. As for myself, I would rather have my head severed from my body by the capitalist lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International.

When we are reproached for exercising the dictatorship of party, we say, yes ... We stand by it and cannot do without it.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

When the Communist Party has made up its mind on any subject, it is so certain of being able to carry its point that the calling together of the All-Russian Executive Committee is merely a theatrical demonstration of the fact that it can do what it likes. When it does meet, the Communists allow the microscopical opposition great liberty of speech, listen quietly, cheer ironically, and vote like one man, proving on every occasion that the meeting of the Executive Committee was the idlest of forms, intended rather to satisfy purists than for purposes of discussion, since the real discussion has all taken place beforehand among the Communists themselves. Something like this must happen with every representative assembly at which a single party has a great preponderance and a rigid internal discipline

In the field of actual politics, parties are a necessity and organization is essential. It is the duty of the citizen, therefore, to support the party that stands for right policies and to adhere closely to its official organization. Loyalty should be rewarded by positions within the gift of the party; and disloyalty should be looked upon as politician treason.

Nations, not less than individuals, reap as they sow. The dreadful calamities of the past few years came not by accident, nor unbidden, from the ground. You shudder to-day at the harvest of blood sown in the spring-time of the Republic by your patriot fathers. The principle of slavery, which they tolerated under the erroneous impression that it would soon die out, became at last the dominant principle and power at the South. It early mastered the Constitution, became superior to the Union, and enthroned itself above the law.

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage -- work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

There should be consequences for those who openly voice racist and fascist opinions. Our politicians should stand up way more; our justice system should stand up way more and punish these people harder than they ever did before.

Penalties are part of the game.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.

There are high hurdles for expelling someone from a party, and with good reason.

It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.