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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
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
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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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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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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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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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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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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 believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an all Canadian boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
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I've always lived in a democratic society.
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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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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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