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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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
Journalist
Judge
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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.
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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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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.
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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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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.
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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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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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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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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