It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war,… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side.… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other? — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
“When you are special to a cat, you are specialindeed. She brings to you the gift of her proference of you, the sight of… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share
