Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Canada Birth: October 18, 1919 Death: September 28, 2000
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain..
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 mo….
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet..
The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men..
I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as hav….
I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints ….
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs..
I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, sha….
People are more interested in ideas than dress..
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies..
I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come ….
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens..
What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore canno….
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out..
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 p….
The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required….
I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth..
I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligibl….
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs ….
I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if t….
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power..