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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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 bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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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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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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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 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 new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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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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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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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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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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