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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.
Pierre Trudeau
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
Pierre Trudeau
Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
Pierre Trudeau
A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs.
Pierre Trudeau
A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
Pierre Trudeau
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers.
Pierre Trudeau
I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.
Pierre Trudeau
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other.
Pierre Trudeau
A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
Pierre Trudeau
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Trudeau
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.
Pierre Trudeau
If you want to see me again, don't bring signs saying "Trudeau is a pig" and don't bring signs that he hustles women, because I won't talk to you. I didn't get into politics to be insulted. And don't throw wheat at me either. If you don't stop that, I'll kick you right in the ass.
Pierre Trudeau
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 course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.
Pierre Trudeau
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.
Pierre Trudeau
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.
Pierre Trudeau
When I had been appointed to the Cabinet in 1967, I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.
Pierre Trudeau
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