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

— 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

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

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

— Lester B. Pearson

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

— Lester B. Pearson

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realize - 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

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

— Lester B. Pearson

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

— Lester B. Pearson

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

— Lester B. Pearson