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War Quotes by Lester B. Pearson
- The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
- As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
- As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man…
- And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in…
- It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
- The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us…
- The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is…
- Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
- Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made…
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