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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
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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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.
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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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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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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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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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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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Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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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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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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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 attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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