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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.

    War   Important   Today  
    Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart
  • As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

    War   Men   Uniforms  
    Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart
  • It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

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

    War   Men   Ideas  
    Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart
  • 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 (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart
  • The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

    Peace   Clever   War  
    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955
  • As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

    War   Soldier   World  
    Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart
  • The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

    Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart
  • 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 (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown
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Lester B. Pearson

  • Born: April 23, 1897
  • Died: December 27, 1972
  • Occupation: Former Prime Minister of Canada