List of Lester B. Pearson Quotes

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Lester B. Pearson
Total Quotes 36
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure i felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit i always secured from them.
Association Way Pleasure
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.
Military Design Leader
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.
Thinking Doe Defense
Not only did he [dean acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
Government Suffering Fool
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.
War Discovery Together
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
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.
Powerful One Day Groups
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
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.
Today Groups Individual
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.
Winning Warfare Waste
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Stupid Skills Political
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
Hockey Games Leafs
  • Born: April 23, 1897
  • Died: December 27, 1972
  • Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Canada
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