Lester B. Pearson Quotes

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• If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Money, Crazy, Cat

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• How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

  Lester B. Pearson

  People, Understanding, Knows

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Agreement, Stronger

  Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown

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• The only failures are those who fail to try.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Trying, Failing

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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

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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• Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Understanding, Conflict

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• Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Work, Political, Way

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• 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.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Confidence, Self, Trying

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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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

  Peace, Choices, Extinction

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Jobs, Moral, Prime

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• As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Country, Years, Wish

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

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Men, Easy

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Life, Bridges

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• We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Adam, Miscegenation, Descendants

  Lester B. Pearson (1968). “Peace in the family of man”

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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

  War, Technology, Achievement

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Important, Today

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Soldier, World

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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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 which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Men, Great Day, Progress

  Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown

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• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Men, Important, Purpose

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• 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.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Cat, Sight, Hands

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• 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.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Mistake, People, Political

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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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

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Today, Groups, Individual

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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