Pierre Trudeau Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

I've been called worse things by better people.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

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

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

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

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

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

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

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

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

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

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

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

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

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

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

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

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

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

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.