“My obligation is to the people of BC, and I will defend that until I am no longer premier.”
About his opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline, as quoted in Canada: Trudeau vows to push ahead with pipeline plans in spite of protests https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/canada-trudeau-transcanada-pipeline (16 April 2018), The Guardian.
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36th Premier of British Columbia 1959Related quotes
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2008
“I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Context: Dread. Bottomless dread...
I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/03/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, Sep 03, 2007
2000s
“I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.”
As quoted in Conflict of conviction: a reappraisal of Quaker involvement in the American Revolution (1990), by William C. Kashatus, p. 45
As quoted in Hannibal : Enemy of Rome (1992) by Leonard Cottrell, p. 150.
The Issue (1908)
Context: Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself, but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe to myself. What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
From interview with PTC Б1, 1992
Interviews (1993 – 1995)