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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
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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France
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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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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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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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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
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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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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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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 it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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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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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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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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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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