Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 445 |
| AUTHOR: | Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000) |
| QUOTATION: | There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed … It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people … Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On October 16 Trudeau invoked the 1914 War Measures Act, for the first time in peacetime, to deal with Separatist terrorists who had kidnapped two high-ranking officials. |
| SUBJECTS: | Dissent |