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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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 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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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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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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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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Long live free France.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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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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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 think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
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