Pierre Trudeau Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've been called worse things by better people.

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

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