Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Canada Birth: October 18, 1919 Death: September 28, 2000
Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world..
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet..
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else..
Power only tires those who don't exercise it..
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart..
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code..
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness..
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you a….
We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position..
The essential ingredient of politics is timing..
I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace..
If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first..
I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do..
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in acco….
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice..
I believe in God, and I'm a Christian..
The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms..
I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church..
Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder..
I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't t….
I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper..