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Lester B Pearson
 
Date of birth: 23 April 1897
Date of death: 27 December 1972
Country Of Origin: Canada
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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
" 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
" 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
" As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. "

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. "

Lester B Pearson
" 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
" 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
" Certainly the idea of an international police force effective against a big disturber of the peace seems today unrealizable to the point of absurdity. "

Lester B Pearson
" During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it. "

Lester B Pearson
" 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
" 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
" 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. "

Lester B Pearson
" 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. "

Lester B Pearson
" It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. "

Lester B Pearson
" It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface. "

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