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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

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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 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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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
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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 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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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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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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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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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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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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 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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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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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 believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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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'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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