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Pierre Trudeau Inspirational Quotes (77)

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A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
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Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up
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It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
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I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.
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As against the invisible hand of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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