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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.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
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Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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 can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
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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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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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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 do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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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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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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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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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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I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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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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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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As against the invisible hand of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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