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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin it is crimes that it must define.
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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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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I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.
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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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As against the invisible hand of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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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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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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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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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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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.
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I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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