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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
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The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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