Lester B. Pearson

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#enlightening #fear #ignorance #inspirational #uknown

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#did #i #most #soldier #survived

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

#been #canada #country #devotion #given

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

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #easy #governments #incite #man

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

— Lester B. Pearson

#giants #grim #like #peace #precocious

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. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#considerable #destruction #economic #fought #gain

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #between #done #first #fraternity

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

#always #brought #citizens #free #free citizens

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

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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

#any #best #defense #does #duty