The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. -Lester B. Pearson Peace
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. -Lester B. Pearson War
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 Peace
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 Power
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
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. -Lester B. Pearson War
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. -Lester B. Pearson Peace
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 Peace
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. -Lester B. Pearson History
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 Faith
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. -Lester B. Pearson Peace
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. -Lester B. Pearson War
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 Peace
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. -Lester B. Pearson Peace
