But while we all pray for peace, we do n... by Lester B. Pearson

Want Peace Canada Diplomat Prime Minister

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

- Lester B. Pearson

Other quotes by Lester B. Pearson

Dreams Today May World

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.

- Lester B. Pearson

War Now Man

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.

- Lester B. Pearson

War Man

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.

- Lester B. Pearson

Progress May Man

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

Tragedy Science Peace Will

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

War Man

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

- Lester B. Pearson

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