"As for the promotion of peace congresses we……" — 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 and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
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Lester B. Pearson
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31 Quotes by Lester B. Pearson
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in…
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
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