Lester B. Pearson Quotes

1897–1972 Canada

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He served as Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1946 and secretary of state for external affairs from 1948 to 1957 under Liberal Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tribute (1972)

Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.

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.

Nobel Prize acceptance (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lester B. Pearson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.