“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.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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“The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.”
— Lester B. Pearson
Author: Lester B. Pearson
Category: peace
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“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 do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.”
— Lester B. Pearson
Author: Lester B. Pearson
Category: peace
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“And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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“Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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“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.”
— Lester B. Pearson
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“As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.”
— Lester B. Pearson
Author: Lester B. Pearson
Category: war
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“And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.”
— Lester B. Pearson
Author: Lester B. Pearson
Category: technology
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“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
— Lester B. Pearson
Author: Lester B. Pearson
Category: war
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