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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

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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Cherished
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Civilized

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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
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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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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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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 don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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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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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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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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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 was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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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 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 believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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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 think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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