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Former Prime Minister Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (241)

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I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
John Abbott
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
Pierre Trudeau
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I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Trudeau
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Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
Brian Mulroney
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Charles Tupper
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
Pierre Trudeau
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.
Kim Campbell
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From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Trudeau
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
Pierre Trudeau
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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
Pierre Trudeau
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Every hour of useful work is precious.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Socialists are Liberals in a hurry.
Louis St. Laurent
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