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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
Devout
Catholic
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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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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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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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
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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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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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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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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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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
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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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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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