The choice, however, is as clear now for... by Lester B. Pearson | We Heart Quotes

Now Peace Canada Diplomat Prime Minister

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

- Lester B. Pearson

Other quotes by Lester B. Pearson

Meetings

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.

- Lester B. Pearson

Politics

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

- Lester B. Pearson

Ideals Peace

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

War

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

Peace Want

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

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

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