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Inspirational Quotes by Pierre Trudeau
- The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
- I've been called worse things by better people.
- If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
- People are more interested in ideas than dress.
- We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
- The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
- Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
- Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- Vive la France libre.
- Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
- The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
- Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
- Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
- The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the…
- Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
- My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
- The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento