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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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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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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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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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 don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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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've always lived in a democratic society.
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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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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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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 can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
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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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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
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