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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.
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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Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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 state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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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 think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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