Lester B. Pearson Quotes

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in...

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representativ...

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history...

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impres...

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinct...

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to West...

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tension...

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies...

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no ...

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make ...