Pierre Trudeau Quotes

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

I come from people who dreamed of a free democratic system. I believe so strongly in the process and equal access.

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity...

There is no freedom without justice.

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.