Pierre Trudeau

Long live free France.

— Pierre Trudeau

I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.

— Pierre Trudeau

Vive la France libre.

— Pierre Trudeau

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

— Pierre Trudeau

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

— Pierre Trudeau

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

— Pierre Trudeau

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

— Pierre Trudeau

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

— Pierre Trudeau

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

— Pierre Trudeau

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

— Pierre Trudeau

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

— Pierre Trudeau

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

— Pierre Trudeau

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

— Pierre Trudeau

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

— Pierre Trudeau

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't…

— Pierre Trudeau

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with…

— Pierre Trudeau

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

— Pierre Trudeau

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

— Pierre Trudeau

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

— Pierre Trudeau

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does…

— Pierre Trudeau

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most…

— Pierre Trudeau

We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our…

— Pierre Trudeau

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law…

— Pierre Trudeau

I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that…

— Pierre Trudeau

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in…

— Pierre Trudeau

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious…

— Pierre Trudeau

When the religious principles, like the philosophical, are translated into reality, sometimes the reality forces violence on you, and there is no…

— Pierre Trudeau

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and…

— Pierre Trudeau

I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be…

— Pierre Trudeau

In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians…

— Pierre Trudeau

If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of…

— Pierre Trudeau

I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can…

— Pierre Trudeau

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in…

— Pierre Trudeau

Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice…

— Pierre Trudeau

I've always lived in a democratic society.

— Pierre Trudeau

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

— Pierre Trudeau

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

— Pierre Trudeau

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

— Pierre Trudeau

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

— Pierre Trudeau