Quote

Long live free France.

Pierre Trudeau

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
France
Free
Live
Long
Libre

More quotes by Pierre Trudeau

Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
I've always lived in a democratic society.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
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.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
Pierre Trudeau
Image
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
Pierre Trudeau