"It has too often been too easy for……" — Lester B. Pearson
"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war."
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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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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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