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Power only tires those who don't exercise 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
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.
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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've always lived in a democratic society.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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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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Long live free France.
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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 don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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