"Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century."

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Source : Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

Peter Brimelow

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“As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.”
“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.”
“If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.”
“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”

Source : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”

Source : "Trotzky's Diary in Exile - 1935". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1958.
“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.”
“...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.”

Source : John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.50, Penguin

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