Pierre Trudeau Quotes

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

Better 100 years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy.

The nation’s priority is stability.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

Freedom can flow from order. That is not to say that freedom always flows from order because you can have a totalitarian order and you can have an undemocratic order from which freedom will not flow, but that surest way to destroy freedom is to have chaos.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.