Lester B. Pearson Quotes & Sayings
29 most famous Lester B. Pearson quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Canadian politician who passed away on 27 December, 1972.
“As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.”
“We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.”
“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.”
“We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.”
“I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.”
“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
“The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.”
“When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.”
“It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.”
“It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”
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