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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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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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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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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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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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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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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 state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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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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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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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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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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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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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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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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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