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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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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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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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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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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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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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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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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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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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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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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The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.
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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, 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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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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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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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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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