Quotes of Lester B. Pearson - somelinesforyou

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ 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. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

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

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Lester B. Pearson

“ 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
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