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Long live free France.

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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
Free
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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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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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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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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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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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As against the invisible hand of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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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'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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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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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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