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Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson PC OM CC OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965.

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Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

Cooperation, Destiny, Pride, Separation, Strong

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Anxious, Mistake, People, Political, Wider

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Confidence, Mutual, Self, Toleration, Trying

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

Cause, Important, Previously, Produce, Today, War

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Political, Politics, Skilled, Skills, Stupid, Use

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

Canadians, Inspiration, Loyalty, Mean, Part, Pride

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Clever, Grim, Peace, Precocious, War

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

Conflict, Leads, Nature, Understanding

As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.

Country, National, Wish, Year, Years, Young

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.

Scale, Side, Warfare, Waste, Win, Winning

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.

Globe, Idea, Ideas, Material, Men, War

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.

Circumstances, Civilian, Men, Removed, Uniforms, War

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Diplomacy, Letting, Political, Way, Work

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.

Design, Leader, Military, State, Unless

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

Agreement, Destruction, Foundation, Stronger, War

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

Knows, Peace, People, Understanding

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

Choice, Choices, Extinction, Individual, Nations, Peace

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

Easy, Governments, Man, Men, War

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

Jobs, Machiavelli, Moral, Prime, Strength

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, Cordial, Felt, Pleasure, Profit, Way

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