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Former Prime Minister Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (241)

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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
Pierre Trudeau
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Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.
Paul Martin
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I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.
John Diefenbaker
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
Lester B. Pearson
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
Pierre Trudeau
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If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
Pierre Trudeau
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It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered children, but the idea received support from many high-ranking leaders, including Brigham Young and Joseph F. Smith.
John Turner
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
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If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
Wilfrid Laurier
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The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.
Kim Campbell
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The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
Brian Mulroney
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I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
Pierre Trudeau
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I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.
Pierre Trudeau
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Religion gets in the way of morality.
Kim Campbell
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
Pierre Trudeau
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The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
Wilfrid Laurier
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
Pierre Trudeau
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Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
John A. Macdonald
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Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Lester B. Pearson
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I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
Kim Campbell
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Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.
Paul Martin
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Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
John Turner
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When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.
John A. Macdonald
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