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There is a time when quiet courage and audacity become for a people at the key moments of its existence the only form of adequate caution. If it does not then accept the calculated risk of the great steps, it can miss its career forever, exactly like the man who is afraid of life.

René Lévesque

Outside Quebec, I don't find two great cultures. I feel like a foreigner. First and foremost, I am a Québecois, and second—with a rather growing sense of doubt—a Canadian.

René Lévesque

But I have confidence that one day... there's a normal rendezvous with History that Quebec will hold, and I have confidence that we shall be there, together, to witness it.

René Lévesque

We are not a small people, we are maybe something of a great people.

René Lévesque

René Lévesque

René Lévesque

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Born: August 24, 1922

Died: November 1, 1987 (aged 65)

Bio: René Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec.

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