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Pierre Trudeau1919–2000

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 affected by every twitch and grunt.

Pierre Trudeau on America

Speech to the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (25 March 1969)

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I’ve been called worse things by better people.
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As against the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
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Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
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No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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