Pierre Trudeau: What is considered sinful in one of the great religion...

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

Pierre Trudeau

smart country thinking

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

Pierre Trudeau

hills parliament yards

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Pierre Trudeau

speech government reading

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

Pierre Trudeau

easy people way

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

Pierre Trudeau

army people thinking

Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.

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organization giving men

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.

Pierre Trudeau

strong mother past

It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

Pierre Trudeau

political leader ideas

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

Pierre Trudeau

chance advice giving

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

Pierre Trudeau

radical middle inspirational

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

Pierre Trudeau

best-things

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

Pierre Trudeau

curves life-is long

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.

Pierre Trudeau

quality teaching discovery

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau

want justice may

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.

Pierre Trudeau

liberty humanity reality

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.

Pierre Trudeau

guests conversation men

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

Pierre Trudeau

next years jesus

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

Pierre Trudeau

queens government thinking

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Pierre Trudeau

canada wish house

I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

Pierre Trudeau

coats examination saws

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.