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Long live free France.

Pierre Trudeau

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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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France
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I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.
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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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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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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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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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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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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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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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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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
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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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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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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin it is crimes that it must define.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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