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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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, 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 can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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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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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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I've always lived in a democratic society.
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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 don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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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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