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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
Journalist
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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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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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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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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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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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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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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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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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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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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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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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