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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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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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 must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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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 am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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Long live free France.
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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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