Quebec quotes

Vive le Que  bec! Vive le Que  bec libre! Vive le Canada fran c° ais! Vive la France!

- Charles de Gaulle
  Address to the crowd before Montreal's City Hall, 24  Jul. The slogan'Que  bec libre' was identified with the separatist cause.

All we want is an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.

-Yvon Deschamps
Quoted by Peter C Newman in Maclean's,13 Nov1978. This has become the classic formulation of Quebec's national and political aspirations.

I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.

- Marquis de Montcalm
  Spoken to his aides,13 Sep. He died the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

-James Wolfe
  To his troops,12 Sep, after recitingThomas Gray's'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec anddying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm andWolfe (1884).