Lester B. Pearson Quotes

• And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

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• But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

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• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man’s activity or interests.

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• We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

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

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• I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

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

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• A great gulf, however, has been opened between man’s material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

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Lester B. Pearson (29)

Birth:	23rd April, 1897
Death:	27th December, 1972
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Civil Servant, Diplomat, Historian, Politician, Professor

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