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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.
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 religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.
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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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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 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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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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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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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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I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.
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You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.
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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
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Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
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Long live free France.
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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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