Jean Chrétien (1934) 20th Prime Minister of Canada
Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Nine, But Who Watches The Dog?, p. 211
“Better sit still, men say, than rise to fall.”
Book II, stanza 79
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
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