Pierre Trudeau Quotes
Top 44 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Pierre Trudeau on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
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.
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
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 Code.
Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.