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
choices extinction individual
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
miscegenation adam products
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
jobs moral ministers
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.
political way diplomacy
Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.
war men easy
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
understanding conflict
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.
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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.
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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.
trying failing
The only failures are those who fail to try.
strong pride past
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.
war agreement stronger
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.
people understanding knows
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
dream reality one-day
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.
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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.