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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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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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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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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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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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 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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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 believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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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 honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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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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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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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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