Pierre Trudeau Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Past, Greatness, Our Future

  "York University: The Way Must Be Tried" by Michiel Horn, (p. 4), 2008.

• Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Philosophy, Past, Important

  Liberal leadership convention, 1968.

• 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

  Mother, Strong, Past

• I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

• I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its political and social manifestations as far as I can see.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Past, Thinking, Political

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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