Pierre Trudeau Quotes

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• There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go…
• In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
• Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
• Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.
• 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…
• A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country…
• I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never…
• 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…
• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to…
• Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas…
• Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
• 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…
• The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of…
• What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find…
• 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…
• The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
• I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
• The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
• I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must…

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