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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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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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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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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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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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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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There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an all Canadian boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
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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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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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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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I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
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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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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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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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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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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The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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