Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.” ~ Pierre Trudeau [Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau] (1919-2000) Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979, 1980-1984)Source: Memoirs (1993), Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366