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I've always lived in a democratic society.

Pierre Trudeau

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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
Lived
Society
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Democratic

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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'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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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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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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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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 remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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 honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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