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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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In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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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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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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