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People are more interested in ideas than dress.

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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
Diarist
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
Judge
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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.
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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 don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.
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It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.
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A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
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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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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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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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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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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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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
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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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