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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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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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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
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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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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 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 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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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