Pierre Trudeau Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Pierre Trudeau Quotes
We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.

Pierre Trudeau
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

Pierre Trudeau
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau
I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

Pierre Trudeau
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Pierre Trudeau
I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

Pierre Trudeau
I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

Pierre Trudeau
In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

Pierre Trudeau
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

Pierre Trudeau
Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

Pierre Trudeau
In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Pierre Trudeau
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

Pierre Trudeau
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

Pierre Trudeau
Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

Pierre Trudeau
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Pierre Trudeau
A good camper knows that it is more important to be ingenious than to be a genius.

Pierre Trudeau
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Pierre Trudeau
I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!

Pierre Trudeau
I don't know if the member of Prince Edward-Hastings thinks he's on camera, but he's not.

Pierre Trudeau
I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

Pierre Trudeau
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

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

Pierre Trudeau
Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state.

Pierre Trudeau
I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

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

Pierre Trudeau
The twentieth century really belongs to those who will build it. The future can be promised to no one.

Pierre Trudeau
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Pierre Trudeau
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

Pierre Trudeau
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

Pierre Trudeau