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Pierre Trudeau Inspirational Quotes (77)

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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin it is crimes that it must define.
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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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I've always lived in a democratic society.
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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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