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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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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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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.
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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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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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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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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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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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, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
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I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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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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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.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
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I've always lived in a democratic society.
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