"I cannot think of anything more difficult than……" — 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 occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award."
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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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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of…
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the…
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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of…
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have…
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As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of…
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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for…
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the…
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I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my…
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