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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

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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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Catholic

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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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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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Long live free France.
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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 can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
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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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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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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 do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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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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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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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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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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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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If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
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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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