“…[Monarchy] is the only form of government in the world that, while making use of the democratic element, has been able to keep it within reasonable limits. The democratic element has a fortunate effect in the political sphere when it is balanced by another force. We have this advantage over our neighbours the Americans, who have extreme democracy...The centripetal force has to be greater than the centrifugal force.

“Jacques Cartier brought with him monarchical principles that I love and cherish. He is my namesake: I would like to walk in the footsteps of this illustrious man and I do not want to detract from his great plans. If, when three more centuries have passed, history remembers my name as someone who did something for his country, and if it says that one day I deviated from the virtue of my ancestors, it will hold my memory in abhorrence, and I do not wish it to be so.”