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Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian politician. He was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
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The state has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
Memoirs (1993)
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
Memoirs (1993)
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place — and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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.
Memoirs (1993)
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 producers.
Memoirs (1993)
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Approaches to Politics (1970)
I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.
Memoirs (1993)
Oh, for Christ's sake shut up. Obviously the New Democratic Party is not only misinformed but uninterested in the subject.
As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
Memoirs (1993)
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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.
Memoirs (1993)
If I can be permitted to turn around a phrase, I would say that I'm kind of sorry I won't have you to kick around any more.
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.
Memoirs (1993)
What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
Memoirs (1993)
A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs. A man must say what he believes clearly, without dogma, and without guile.
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
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