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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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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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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
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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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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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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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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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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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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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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