Pierre Trudeau Quotes

Each secession destroys the unity of a nation.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

If it becomes a question of destruction of this union or the preservation of the country, the country is going to be preserved.

To exercise self-determination through secession is to blow apart the union, to pit peoples against one another and to sow discord, bloodshed and death. This is precisely the goal of secessionists in all republics.

If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

Algeria is not breaking up.

For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

This country is being killed by people who try to break us down, tear us down and make us little when we have to be big.

The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is nobody's business to create them.

If the States cannot live together in harmony, under the auspices of such a Government as exists, and in the midst of blessings, such as have been the fruits of it, what is the prospect threatened by the abolition of a Common Government, with all the rivalships collisions and animosities, inseparable from such an event.

Whether we remain in one confederacy or form into Atlantic and Mississippi Confederacies I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the Western Confederacy will be as much our children as those of the Eastern part.

Disunion is the only alternative that is left us

Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

I will do everything in my power to keep the United Kingdom united.

The only problem is that there are a lot of people here in Catalonia who want to separate from Spain and a lot of people who don't want to. We are talking about 50-50, more or less, and that is why it is difficult.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

We don't always win when we are united, but we always lose when we are divided.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.