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Former Prime Minister Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (241)

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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
Pierre Trudeau
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There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!
Louis St. Laurent
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I have one love - Canada one purpose - Canada's greatness one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
John Diefenbaker
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson
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When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
John A. Macdonald
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Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
Pierre Trudeau
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The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.
Paul Martin
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson
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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John Abbott
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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
Lester B. Pearson
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
Pierre Trudeau
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The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
Paul Martin
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I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
Pierre Trudeau
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You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
Pierre Trudeau
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I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.
Pierre Trudeau
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I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.
John Diefenbaker
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If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
Lester B. Pearson
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The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
Lester B. Pearson
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It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.
Charles Tupper
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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.
John Diefenbaker
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