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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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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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 remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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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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Long live free France.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
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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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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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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.
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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
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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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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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