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

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into…

— 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

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

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

— Pierre Trudeau

Freedom can flow from order. That is not to say that freedom always flows from order because you can have a totalitarian…

— Pierre Trudeau

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

— 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

The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in…

— Pierre Trudeau

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people…

— Pierre Trudeau

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

— Pierre Trudeau

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…

— Pierre Trudeau

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no…

— Pierre Trudeau

The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as…

— 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

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

— Pierre Trudeau

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the…

— Pierre Trudeau

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do,…

— Pierre Trudeau

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

— 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

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

— Pierre Trudeau

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy…

— Pierre Trudeau

As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning…

— Pierre Trudeau

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

— 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