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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
Harvard
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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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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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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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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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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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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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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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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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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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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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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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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
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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 think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
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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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