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Former Prime Minister Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (241)

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The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson
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The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
Pierre Trudeau
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
Pierre Trudeau
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I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
Pierre Trudeau
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Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.
John Turner
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
Brian Mulroney
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I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.
John Diefenbaker
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This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
Lester B. Pearson
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
Brian Mulroney
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Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
Kim Campbell
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It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.
John Abbott
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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
Pierre Trudeau
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Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
Kim Campbell
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Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
Brian Mulroney
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I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.
Kim Campbell
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There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an all Canadian boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
Pierre Trudeau
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Lester B. Pearson
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Lester B. Pearson
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Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
Brian Mulroney
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson
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It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
Pierre Trudeau
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