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Than Quotes by Lester B. Pearson
- Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May…
- I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of…
- It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than…
- No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense…
- The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful,…
- Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
- Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
- True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more…
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