Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC, usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was a Canadian politician who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980, to June 30, 1984...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 October 1919
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
intelligent totems break
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
peers canada privilege
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.
teaching discovery quality
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.
democracy roles demand
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
heart mean gun
There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
teacher teaching risk
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.
house wish canada
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.
academic-life politics facts
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
curves long life-is
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
aquariums politics ingredients
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
mother baby kissing
Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
coats examination saws
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.
brother men community
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
reality humanity liberty
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.