He might make mistakes, but he had qualities which would ride over errors with success.
"I'm not French," he said at last in his speech, "but I used to think and write in French as though I'd been born in Normandy.

I'm English by birth and breeding, but I've always gone to French schools and to a French University, and I know what New France means.

I stand to my English origin, but I want to see the French develop here as they've developed in France, alive to all new ideas, dreaming good dreams.

I believe that Frenchmen in Canada can, and should, be an inspiration to the whole population.

Their great qualities should be the fibre in the body of public opinion.