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Quote from Pierre Trudeau,


"A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values."


By:

Pierre Trudeau (more quotes by Pierre Trudeau or books by/about Pierre Trudeau)


[Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau] (1919-2000) Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979, 1980-1984)

Source:

Memoirs (1993), Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366

Categories:

Canada, Honor, Integrity, Self-Determination, Statism

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