Lester B. Pearson
Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson OM CC OBE PC PCwas a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 April 1897
CountryCanada
winning waste gains
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
war men uniforms
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.
peace clever war
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
powerful one-day groups
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
war technology achievement
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.
stupid skills political
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
today groups individual
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.
mistake people political
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.
hockey games leafs
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
men important done
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.
life bridges
We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
war soldier world
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
war important today
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
confidence self trying
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.