As a civilian during the Second War, I w... by Lester B. Pearson

Man War Canada Diplomat Prime Minister

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

Other quotes by 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

Today War

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

- 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

Defense Duty Right

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

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

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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