Lester B. Pearson

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

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

— Lester B. Pearson

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or…

— Lester B. Pearson

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

— Lester B. Pearson

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

“When you are special to a cat, you are specialindeed. She brings to you the gift of her proference of you, the…

— Lester B. Pearson

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

— Lester B. Pearson

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined…

— Lester B. Pearson

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

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on…

— Lester B. Pearson

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

— Lester B. Pearson

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

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable…

— Lester B. Pearson

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than…

— Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

— Lester B. Pearson

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt…

— Lester B. Pearson

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

— Lester B. Pearson

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

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a…

— Lester B. Pearson

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I…

— Lester B. Pearson

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he…

— Lester B. Pearson

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight…

— Lester B. Pearson

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

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to…

— Lester B. Pearson

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

— Lester B. Pearson