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Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state.
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I don't know if the member of Prince Edward-Hastings thinks he's on camera, but he's not.
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On U.S.-Canadian relations:
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and groan.
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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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.
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I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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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.
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A good camper knows that it is more important to be ingenious than to be a genius.
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
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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.
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Well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed. But it's more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of a soldier—
CBC reporter Tim Ralfe [interrupting]: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that?
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Well, just watch me.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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I would not know how to instill a taste for adventure in those who have not acquired it.... And yet there are people who suddenly tear themselves away from their comfortable existence and, using the energy of their bodies as an example to their brains, apply themselves to the discovery of unsuspected pleasures and places.
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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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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.
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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
October 18, 1919
Died:
September 28, 2000
(aged 80)
Bio:
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician. He was Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. His eldest son is, a teacher and politician.
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