How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

- Lester B. Pearson

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 noth…

- Lester B. Pearson

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

- Lester B. Pearson

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the de…

- Lester B. Pearson

Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the convict…

- Lester B. Pearson

The only failures are those who fail to try.

- Lester B. Pearson

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

- Lester B. Pearson

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundat…

- 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 …

- Lester B. Pearson