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Pierre Trudeau

Americans should never undere...

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.

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Pierre Trudeau

If you live in a society wher...

If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.

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Pierre Trudeau

A country, after all, is not ...

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 is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

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Pierre Trudeau

I was inclined to judge the v...

I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

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Pierre Trudeau

I, for one, will be convinced...

I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

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Pierre Trudeau

I saw the charter as an expre...

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 permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

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Pierre Trudeau

In reality, though, the first...

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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Pierre Trudeau

I think all of us, politician...

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

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Pierre Trudeau

I can see that in certain pol...

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

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Pierre Trudeau

I think the sense of exclusiv...

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its political and social manifestations as far as I can see.

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Pierre Trudeau

Because I am a deep believer ...

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

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Pierre Trudeau

In academic life you seek to ...

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

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Pierre Trudeau

What is wonderful about a uni...

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 the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

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Pierre Trudeau

In specific terms I don't thi...

In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians have been under the good influences of their churches that they are a tolerant people, an understanding and patient people, so that there has been little backlash against the excesses which have happened over the decades in French and in English Canada which might turn either group off.

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Pierre Trudeau

I do object to the sensationa...

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

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Pierre Trudeau

Obviously, the state's respon...

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 the nation.

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Pierre Trudeau

I think that the history of t...

I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

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Pierre Trudeau

Who is it that said that 'you...

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

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Pierre Trudeau

I think it's good that you te...

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.

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Pierre Trudeau

I never actually got around t...

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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