Lester B. Pearson's Quotes

Lester B. Pearson's Quotes 14

As a soldier I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by...

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than I should think at...

The choice however is as clear now for nations as it was once for the...

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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace...

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would...

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and...

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war during which...

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But while we all pray for peace we do not always as free citizens support...

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for...

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that...

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise...