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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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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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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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 know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
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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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I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.
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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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Long live free France.
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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 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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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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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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