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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. - Lester B. Pearson
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. - 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
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. - Lester B. Pearson
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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
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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
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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
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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. - Lester B. Pearson
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The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. - Lester B. Pearson
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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. - Lester B. Pearson
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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. - Lester B. Pearson
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. - Lester B. Pearson
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. - Lester B. Pearson
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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
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. - Lester B. Pearson
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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
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. - Lester B. Pearson
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