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Former Prime Minister Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (241)

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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
Brian Mulroney
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Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
John A. Macdonald
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How can there be peace without people understanding each other and how can this be if they don't know each other?
Lester B. Pearson
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The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that.
Paul Martin
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
Pierre Trudeau
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.
Paul Martin
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.
Charles Tupper
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It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges
Paul Martin
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
Pierre Trudeau
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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.
Louis St. Laurent
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I have always been a House of Commons man.
John Diefenbaker
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I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.
John Turner
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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
Charles Tupper
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Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.
Kim Campbell
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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
Wilfrid Laurier
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
Pierre Trudeau
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