The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and f… — Quoted

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

Lester B. Pearson · Peace

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Lester B. Pearson

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.

Dreams

Lester B. Pearson

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Society

Lester B. Pearson

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.

Peace

Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Politics