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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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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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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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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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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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I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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Long live free France.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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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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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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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 violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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