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“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”

Lester B. Pearson · Politics

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Lester B. Pearson

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.

Peace

Lester B. Pearson

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.

Peace

Lester B. Pearson

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

War

Lester B. Pearson

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

Peace