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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
Diarist
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
Judge
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I've always lived in a democratic society.
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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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I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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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 think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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