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Which Quotes by 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 may one day…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
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