Quotes by : Lester B. Pearson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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

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

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