The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. - Lester B. Pearson 1 Share Now -
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. - Lester B. Pearson 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. - Lester B. Pearson 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. - Lester B. Pearson 10 Share Now -
