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Top 30 Lester B. Pearson Quotes (2025 Update)

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don’t know each other?”

1. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.”

3. “We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “The only failures are those who fail to try.”

4. “The only failures are those who fail to try.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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 deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.”

5. “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 deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.”

6. “Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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 foundation, than the terror of destruction.”

7. “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 foundation, than the terror of destruction.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.”

9. “Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.”

10. “Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.”

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

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”

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

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”

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

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.”

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

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.”

18. “Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”

20. “Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.”

21. “We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “When you’re special to a cat, you’re special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.”

22. “When you’re special to a cat, you’re special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.”

23. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

26. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.”

29. “Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.”

30. “No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.”

— Lester B. Pearson

Lester B. Pearson Quote: “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.”

31. “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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