When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
Pierre TrudeauAmericans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.
Pierre TrudeauThe churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.
Pierre TrudeauThe politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
Pierre TrudeauI think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.
Pierre TrudeauPerhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
Pierre Trudeau