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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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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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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 remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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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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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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Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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 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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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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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 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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